TY - JOUR N2 - The article is devoted to the late Zygmunt Bauman (d. January 2017), a scholar who made an enormous impact on world humanities at the turn of the twentieth century. It briefly presents Bauman’s life and a number of the best known concepts from his works. The author first discusses Bauman’s attitude toward Marxist theory and explains his revision of it. He then introduces the main ideas of Bauman work Modernity and the Holocaust. The article ends with a review of Bauman’s reflections on globalisation and a discussion of his thesis concerning the crisis of the nation state. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/110475/PDF-MASTER/N117-12-Raciborski.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/110475 PY - 2017 IS - No 1 EP - 182 KW - Zygmunt Bauman KW - Modernity KW - intellectual biography KW - Holocaust KW - nation state KW - globalisation A1 - Raciborski, Jacek PB - Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN DA - 2017.03.31 T1 - Zygmunt Bauman: An outline of an intellectual biography SP - 173 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/110475 T2 - Nauka ER -