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Zygmunt Bauman

1925 - 2017

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Zygmunt Bauman (; Polish: [ˈbauman]; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrated to Israel; three years later he moved to the United Kingdom. He resided in England from 1971, where he studied at the London School of Economics and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later emeritus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zygmunt Bauman is the 135th most popular philosopher (down from 134th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Poland (down from 31st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Philosopher.

Zygmunt Bauman is a sociologist and philosopher who is most famous for his work in the areas of postmodernity, globalization, consumerism, and liquid modernity.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Zygmunt Bauman ranks 135 out of 1,267. Before him are Anaximenes of Miletus, Simone Weil, Joseph Priestley, John Wycliffe, Johann Friedrich Herbart, and Martin Buber. After him are Giambattista Vico, Tommaso Campanella, Philo, Charles Fourier, Duns Scotus, and Baron d'Holbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Zygmunt Bauman ranks 14. Before him are Yukio Mishima, Mahathir Mohamad, Patrice Lumumba, Robert Edwards, Gilles Deleuze, and Alija Izetbegović. After him are Albert Bandura, Jorge Rafael Videla, Tony Curtis, Giorgio Napolitano, Sammy Davis Jr., and Pierre Boulez. Among people deceased in 2017, Zygmunt Bauman ranks 7. Before him are Helmut Kohl, Charles Manson, Michael I of Romania, Gene Cernan, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, and Stanislav Petrov. After him are Roger Moore, Bill Paxton, Tom Petty, Raymond Kopa, Jalal Talabani, and Jeanne Moreau.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zygmunt Bauman ranks 35 out of 1,694. Before him are Władysław Szpilman (1911), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), and Rudolf Clausius (1822). After him are Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Günther von Kluge (1882), Walther Nernst (1864), Arthur Rubinstein (1887), and Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Zygmunt Bauman ranks 3. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), and Johann Gottfried Herder (1744). After him are Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Jakob Böhme (1575), Christian Wolff (1679), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Heinrich Rickert (1863), and Paul Tillich (1886).

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