Book, Strange Familiar: Conversations about the World We Live in[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. In Familiar Strange, readers of Zygmunt Bauman will find a more personal perspective on the man who changed the way we think about the modern world. And those who have just discovered this committed humanist will have in their hands a masterful synthesis of his immense legacy. Months before he passed away, Zygmunt Bauman received Swiss journalist Peter Haffner at his home for three long conversations. From these meetings this book emerged, in which the great sociologist discusses topics such as history, politics, identity, Jewishness, morals, happiness and love. Bauman describes his childhood, military service in the Red Army, participation in the Second World War and expulsion from Poland in 1968, offering intimate accounts of historical events to which he devotes his fine social and political insights. He talks about the perspective of death with the experience of someone who, as a Polish Jew, faced firsthand the deregulated, fragmented and individualized society of liquid modernity, of which he became a theorist. Comments on the authors who played a major role in his thought, such as Antonio Gramsci and Emmanuel Levinas. And he highlights the importance of sociology — a science whose meaning, in his view, is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.