Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, England, and the author of scores of books, including Memories of Class (1982), Modernity and the Holocaust (1989), Liquid Modernity (2000), and Strangers at Our Door (2016). (December 2018)

‘Evil Has Been Trivialized’

Bauman: The cynicism and aimlessness of “random” or “gratuitous” evil escape understanding and “rational,” “cause-and-effect” explanations, which in our modern way of thinking it must possess. Doing evil no longer demands motivation.

December 6, 2018

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