Zygmunt Bauman and Rein Raud discussed culture and politics in TU
One of the most well-known sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw, visited Estonia as a guest of the doctoral school of Cultural Sciences and Arts.
One of the most well-known sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw, visited Estonia as a guest of the doctoral school of Cultural Sciences and Arts.
Under the black ceiling of the Writers´ Union hall, Professor Bauman discussed the diversified relationship of culture and politics with Rein Raud, a professor at the University of Helsinki and a TU research professor.
“The dimension of time, in which we plan our activities, is becoming shorter,” noted the professor. “We move from one episode to another. Thus, our volume of future perception has decreased. We live in a time that has been called the “Era of Speed” by Paul Virilio, one of the sharpest modern cultural philosophers. Nowadays, this is one of the factors that shapes our world view.”
Polish-Jewish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman took part in WW II as a member of the Polish army controlled by the Soviet Union and since 1971, resides in England as a British citizen. At the end of the 1980’s and beginning of the 1990’s he published several books on the topics of modernity, bureaucracy, rationality and social aversion. Bauman´s most famous book “Modernity and Holocaust” tries to give an overview of the danger of different fears.
In the mid-1990’s Bauman started researching postmodernism and the consumer society. According to Bauman, a shift took place in modern society in the 2nd half of the 20th century, which changed the existing producers´ society into a consumers´ society.
