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Zygmunt Bauman

1925 - 2017

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Zygmunt Bauman (; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish-born 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zygmunt Bauman has received more than 1,214,944 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Zygmunt Bauman is the 119th most popular philosopher (down from 1st in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Poland (up from 26th 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 119 out of 1,081. Before him are John Venn, Bodhidharma, Al-Tabari, George Gurdjieff, Emil Cioran, and Johann Friedrich Herbart. After him are Antisthenes, Ramon Llull, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Tommaso Campanella, and Marsilio Ficino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Zygmunt Bauman ranks 11. Before him are Yukio Mishima, Mikis Theodorakis, Paul Newman, Albert Bandura, Gilles Deleuze, and Patrice Lumumba. After him are Alija Izetbegović, Mahathir Mohamad, Robert F. Kennedy, Tony Curtis, Lee Van Cleef, and B.B. King. Among people deceased in 2017, Zygmunt Bauman ranks 5. Before him are Charles Manson, Helmut Kohl, Roger Moore, and Stanislav Petrov. After him are Michael I of Romania, Gene Cernan, David Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jeanne Moreau, Salvatore Riina, and Raymond Kopa.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zygmunt Bauman ranks 24 out of 1,454. Before him are Janusz Korczak (1878), Stanisław Lem (1921), Fedor von Bock (1880), Erich Ludendorff (1865), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), and Władysław Szpilman (1911). After him are Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Arthur Rubinstein (1887), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), and Maximilian Kolbe (1894).

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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 Ernst Cassirer (1874), Christian Wolff (1679), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Jakob Böhme (1575), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Paul Tillich (1886), and Heinrich Rickert (1863).

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