Polish-born sociologist Zygmunt Bauman dies in UK at age 91

Polish-born sociologist Zygmunt Bauman dies in UK at age 91

The most prominent and prolific European sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman has died at the age of 91.He was a strong moral voice for the poor and dispossessed in a world upended by globalisation. Bauman’s works explored the fluidity of identity in the modern world, the Holocaust, consumerism and

globalisation. He wrote more than 50 books, notably “Modernity and the Holocaust,” a 1989 release in which he differed with many other thinkers who saw the barbarism of the Holocaust as a breakdown in modernity.He has coined the term “liquid modernity” to describe a contemporary world in such flux that individuals are left rootless and bereft of any predictable frames of reference.