{"product_id":"my-life-in-fragments-9781509551309","title":"My Life in Fragments","description":"\u003cp\u003eZygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today. His own life was shaped by the great social forces that scarred the second half of the twentieth century - war, communism, antisemitism, forced migration. His work bears the traces of an outsider who knew all too well the enormous impact that social and political forces can have on personal lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBauman never wrote a full biography, but he wrote extended letters to his daughters in which he recounted the details of his life - his childhood and schooling; his experiences during the war and its aftermath; his forced emigration from Poland in 1968 and his subsequent life in exile, first in Israel and then in the UK, where he eventually settled at the University of Leeds. This book makes available for the first time these fragments of a life recounted, woven into a compelling autobiographical narrative that is laced with the broader reflections of a master thinker on some of the great issues of our time: identity, antisemitism and totalitarianism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZygmunt Bauman\u003c\/b\u003e (1925-2017) was Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and the author of many influential works, including \u003ci\u003eModernity and the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiquid Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStrangers at Our Door\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRetrotopia\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIzabela Wagner\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw and the author of \u003ci\u003eBauman: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50497258881298,"sku":"9781509551309","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9092572d-d799-479a-8368-938f6665e685.jpg?v=1730709449","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-life-in-fragments-9781509551309","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}