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Making the Familiar Unfamiliar - A Conversation with Peter Haffner (Paperback)
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Making the Familiar Unfamiliar - A Conversation with Peter Haffner (Paperback)
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Loot Price R497
Discovery Miles 4 970
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Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in
conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these
conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be
the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned,
a thinker who never shied away from addressing the great issues of
our time and always strove to interrogate received wisdom and
common sense, to make the familiar unfamiliar. As in Bauman's work
more generally, the personal and the political are interwoven in
this book. Bauman's life, which followed the same trajectory as the
social and political upheavals of the 20th century, left its trace
on his thought. Bauman describes his upbringing in Poland, military
service in the Red Army, working for the Polish Secret Service
after the war and expulsion from Poland in 1968, providing personal
accounts of the historical events on which he brings his social and
political insights to bear. His reflections on history, identity,
Jewishness, morality, happiness and love are rooted in his own
personal journey through the turbulent events of the 20th century
to which he bore witness. These last conversations shed new light
on one of the greatest social thinkers of our time, offering a more
personal perspective on a man who changed our way of thinking about
the modern world.
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