Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 21:30:56 +0100
From: "steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk>
Subject: Re: silence - Bauman


All

In the newspaper today a profile of Zygmunt Bauman - to discover that he 
is 78 is a shock.... I had assumed given my comparative recent noticing 
of his work sometime during the 90s that he was younger, but why did I 
assume that? But anyway in the midst of the profile the following gem 
"...The real pessimism is quietism - not doing anything because nothing 
can be changed...." But then his work is marked by a postmodern 
pessimism, a critique of the postmodern human condition, and an 
extraordinarily 'harsh critique of liberal capitalism' -

regards
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