Legislators and Interpreters by Zygmunt Bauman
This book examines the role of intellectuals in modern and post-modern contexts. It argues that as the concept of verity has become increasingly contingent, the role of the intellectual has become interpretive rather than legislative. Bauman assesses the implications of this change for today's culture.Zygmunt Bauman (19 November 1925 - 9 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of Poland by a political purge in 1968 engineered by the Communist government of the Polish People's Republic and forced to give up his Polish citizenship to move to Israel. Three years after he moved to the United Kingdom. He resided in England from 1971 and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later Emeritus. Bauman was one of the world's most eminent social theorists, writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780745601366 |
| ISBN 10 | 0745601367 |
| Title | Legislators and Interpreters |
| Author | Zygmunt Bauman |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Polity Press |
| Year published | 1987-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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