Zygmunt Bauman – The wicked openness of society
Zygmunt Bauman – The wicked openness of society

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we will analyze Zygmunt Bauman’s understanding of the idea and the reality of “open” society in the age of “negative globalization”. He identified many adverse and undesirable effects of this social process, and as the basic one he names the “openness” of modern societies. Under the influence of devastating powers of globalization, the “openness” of societies has turned into its perverted contradiction, to use Karl Popper’s definition of this notion. In order to understand Bauman’s point of view, we will analyze: a general meaning of the idea of an open society, its manifestations in reality and assumptions regarding it. In the addition, we will investigate a distinction between an open and closed society made by Karl Popper.

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