{"product_id":"9781509551309","title":"My Life in Fragments","description":"\u003cp\u003eZygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today.� His own life was shaped by the great social forces that scarred the second half of the twentieth century - war, communism, antisemitism, forced migration.� His work bears the traces of an outsider who knew all too well the enormous impact that social and political forces can have on personal lives.    Bauman never wrote a full biography, but he wrote extended letters to his daughters in which he recounted the details of his life - his childhood and schooling; his experiences during the war and its aftermath; his forced emigration from Poland in 1968 and his subsequent life in exile, first in Israel and then in the UK, where he eventually settled at the University of Leeds.� This book makes available for the first time these fragments of a life recounted, woven into a compelling autobiographical narrative that is laced with the broader reflections of a master thinker on some of the great issues of our time: identity, antisemitism and totalitarianism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45460662288605,"sku":"9781509551309","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781509551309.jpg?v=1720016852","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781509551309","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}