Remembering Zygmunt Bauman
When the Emperor departs, there is often mourning, and some gloating. Is this an interregnum? Was Zygmunt Bauman an emperor? I don’t think so. He was a latecomer to fame, a reluctant celebrity, hopeless at the ten-second grab. Understanding, as he would say, does not come in bite-sized pieces. His was an untidy prominence. He was an insider/outsider. Bauman’s first book in English, on the British labor movement, appeared in 1972. He was...