Ostatni „Bauman” – płynne pokolenie
The Last „Bauman” – a liquid generation

Summary/Abstract: The book “Liquid Generation” [transl. Sz. Żuchowski, “Czarna Owca” Publishing House, Warsaw 2018] is a record of a conversation between Zygmunt Bauman and an Italian journalist Thomas Leoncini; probably the last interview given by the world-famous sociologist and philosopher, the author of the term ‘Liquid Modernity’. Within the chapters of the book the interlocutors discuss the issues connected with the observed changes which occur in the European community at the turn of the century. The authors talk about the physical transformations (tattoos, plastic surgery, growing a beard); about the changes occurring in committed acts of aggression (verbal exclusion, aggression via gesture and physical assault), as well as they direct their focus to the changes in the field of sex and love, giving a part of the chapter the following title: “The twilight of taboo in the age of the internet trade of the feelings”.. The discussed publication ends up with the “cut off” of the conversation, when one day Zygmunt Bauman does not reply to one of Thomas Leoncini’s e-mails. At first Leoncini loses patience but ultimately he acknowledges the fact that Bauman died. The Bauman’s wife, Aleksandra Kania Bauman, furnished the book with a brief introduction, whereas Szymon Żuchowski translated the book from Italian.

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