Zygmunt Bauman
The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme are organising an evening to present the book Zygmunt Bauman.Une biographie, published on 26 September 2024 in the '54' collection.
This session of Livres en dialogue will bring together the author, Izabela Wagner, in conversation with Ulysse Manhes, producer of the 'Voix d'Europe centrale' programme on France Culture.
At the end of the session, you will have the opportunity to put your questions to our guests.
Izabela Wagner has written the first biography of the life and work of Zygmunt Bauman, the author of a major intellectual work long overlooked by the French public. His multifaceted thought defies academic categorisation, encompassing both sociology and philosophy.
Born into a poor Jewish family in Poland in 1925, Bauman was forced to flee to the USSR in 1939 to escape Nazism. He joined the Polish army in exile and became a captain at the end of the Second World War, while resuming his sociology studies at the Academy of Social Sciences in Warsaw. After becoming a member of the communist Polish United Workers' Party, he was expelled from both the university and the party in 1968 in a context of extreme anti-Semitism. Initially a refugee in Israel, in 1971 he settled in Leeds in the United Kingdom, a city he would never leave.
Izabela Wagner is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Migration at the Université Paris-Cité and Fellow at the Institut Convergence Migration. As an ethnographer, she has studied the social world of classical music virtuosos and researchers. Since 2017, she has also begun to explore new territory in the field of forced migration in Europe.
Ulysse Manhes is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the ENS (Ulm) and a literary journalist, producer of the programme 'Voix d'Europe centrale' on France Culture.
Meeting "Livres en dialogue"
27 March, 2025
6:30 pm
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FMSH - Le Comptoir
54 boulevard Raspail
Paris 6
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