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The Horrors of Exclusion: Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociological Journey

In: 30 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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  • Raymond Taras

    (Australian National University)

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Zygmunt Bauman’s career is an epic for our age. The abbreviated communist period he experienced in Poland ended when he was a victim of an anti-Semitic purge in 1968 that eventually brought him to England. The traditional social stratification research he conducted in Warsaw was replaced with the postmodern idea of liquid modernity formulated at Leeds. But in the last decade of his life the politics of migration consumed him, summed up in the ‘wasted lives’ he was convinced migrants and refugees were forced into leading in Europe. Did his view of ‘the stranger’ among us reflect hostility he had experienced in Poland? Or did he struggle to maintain the ‘unconditional hospitality’ that his mentor Emmanuel Levinas had demanded of a host society?

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  • Raymond Taras, 2020. "The Horrors of Exclusion: Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociological Journey," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Alexandr Akimov & Gennadi Kazakevitch (ed.), 30 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall, chapter 0, pages 311-326, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-981-15-0317-7_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-0317-7_14
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