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Zygmunt Bauman (/ ˈ b aʊ m ə n /; Polish:; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. [1] He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship.
Postmodernity and Its Discontents is a book written by Zygmunt Bauman, published in 1997. It is considered a landmark in Bauman's studies on postmodernism. [1] (subscription required) [2] (subscription required) The title references Sigmund Freud's 1930 book Civilization and Its Discontents.
Stephan Loewentheil (born 1950) is an American antiquarian and a rare book and photograph collector. He is the founder and president of the 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop, located in New York, New York and Baltimore, Maryland. Over a career spanning four decades, Loewentheil "has excelled … in unearthing obscure bibliographic ...
Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds is a 2003 book by Zygmunt Bauman which discusses human relations in liquid modern (post-modern) world. The book is part of series of books written by Bauman, such as Liquid Life and Liquid Times .
Bauman's most famous book, Modernity and the Holocaust, is an attempt to give a full account of the dangers of fear of "the stranger".Drawing upon Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno's books on totalitarianism and the Enlightenment, Bauman developed the argument that the Holocaust should not simply be considered to be an event in Jewish history, nor a regression to pre-modern barbarism.
Hilbert has worked as an antiquarian and first edition bookseller at Bauman Rare Books, in the art-deco Sun Oil Building in Philadelphia, since 2003. [5] Between 2012 and 2019, Hilbert taught at the World of Versecraft, the low residency Master of Fine Arts program in poetry at Western State University of Colorado.