Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw, and one of Europe’s foremost sociologists. He is author of 'Liquid Modernity' (Polity 2000) and many other books on contemporary society. His most recent book is 'The Art of Life'.
Reconnecting Power and Politics
Social democrats need to reassert the protective power of the state – this time through global institutions. Ten years ago Gerhard Schröder declared that: ‘economic policy is neither left not right. It is either good or bad’. Today we can conclude that this was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then, eleven out of fifteen governments of the [...]
