prognosemaker

I just recently heard that Zygmund Bauman has died.  He was born in 1925 in Poland, was professor of sociology at Leeds University, head of department. He was interested in many topics. Fascinated me their insights about modernity. He was perhaps the only sociologist who admired me.  It was the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas where the first time I have meet him, not personally, but his works. Later, in 2007 the University gave him an honorary doctorate. One time at the meeting with journalists he sad  “I am not a prophet”. It would be some misunderstanding to call philosopher a prophet. Despite this the professor liked to carry away and analyse, and this thinking’s you can call almost prophetic. He was productive, has written more than fifty books. He called to look to his ideas as a test. To show possible consequences of the present processes. The same thing hooked me and I started to go deeper in my studies. But let’s go back to the professor.   ...