Plenary - Prof Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman headed the Department of Sociology at Leeds from 1972 until his retirement in 1990. He is now Professor Emeritus also at the University of Warsaw. Zygmunt Bauman is known throughout the world for works such as Legislators and Interpreters (1987), Modernity and the Holocaust (1989) and Liquid Modernity (2000). His reputation, although already well-established by the 1970s in Western Europe and North America as well as throughout the then Eastern Bloc, grew at an especially rapid rate in the late 1980s, and today he is described variously as one of the twentieth century's great social theorists. His success is built not only on his powers of creative thought and analysis and his superb sociological acumen, but also on his literary skill as a writer and expositor. (Excerpts from the link below)
- Biography link (University of Leeds)
- Guardian Review (03 April, 2003)