PROCESY ADIAFORYZACJI WE WSPÓŁCZESNEJ POLSKIEJ POLITYCE W ŚWIETLE TEORII ZYGMUNTA BAUMANA
PROCESSES OF ADIAPHORIZATION IN CONTEMPORARY POLISH POLITICS IN THE LIGHT OF ZYGMUNT BAUMAN’S THEORY

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to outline the processes of adiaphorization (the term which was coined by the Polish-English sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, who was a subtle analyst of the issue of power) in contemporary capitalist Poland after the collapse of the real socialism system. This text consists of three chapters. The author begins by outlining the similarities and differences between adiapho- risation in the two phases of modernity: ‘heavy’ (‘solid’) and ‘liquid’ (‘flexible’); the former was characteristic of the society of producers (workers and soldiers), while the latter was characteristic of the society of consumers. It then moves on to nationalism as a source of adiaphorization, which Bauman himself experienced personally as a left- winger of Jewish origin. The final section focuses on the establishment of order and its collateral victims,including‘flawedconsumers’.

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