Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) was Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and the author of many influential works, including Modernity and the Holocaust, Liquid Modernity, Strangers at Our Door and Retrotopia. Izabela Wagner is Professor of Sociology at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw and the author of Bauman: A Biography.

“Brilliant, witty, sometimes moving autobiographical texts by Zygmunt Bauman, comprehensively annotated by Bauman’s accomplished biographer.  Fascinating reading for all interested in Bauman’s scholarly writings.”Jan Tomasz Gross, Princeton University“When I read certain authors on war, I find myself engaged in a kind of vastness of complexities. Some wars are simply wars. But other, often less-known wars are devastating in their capacity to alter an epoch, even if this is not immediately evident. In his own way, I find that Zygmunt Bauman invites us to enter what appears as something familiar but opens up gradually to worlds that can transform our understanding of the familiar.”Saskia Sassen, Columbia University“a sharp, rewarding insight into one of recent history’s most renowned thinkers… The value of [Bauman’s] books will not last an eternity – but they will continue to be read long enough. My Life in Fragments is among the best of them.”Danny Dorling, LSE Review of Books“This chronicle of a soul in relation to society affords a fascinating glimpse into how deeply [Bauman’s] personal experiences inflected both his ideas and the controversies they still excite…  this hopeful book is both a beautifully narrated memoir and a reflection on memoir.”Books and Ideas“a rich­ly tex­tured series of essays that’ve been gath­ered togeth­er for the first time … My Life in Frag­ments offers rich infor­ma­tion that deep­ens our sense of the bio­graph­i­cal con­text of Bauman’s core ideas.” Jewish Book Council

• Introduction Notes1 The Story of Just Another Life?3 January 19974 January5 January6 January9 January11 January12 January16 January28 January30 January31 January7 FebruaryNotes2 Where I Came FromNotes3 The Fate of a Refugee and SoldierNotes4 MaturationNotes5 Who Am I?Notes6 Before Dusk FallsNotes7 Looking Back – for the Last TimeNotesAppendix: Source Material

Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) was Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and the author of many influential works, including Modernity and the Holocaust, Liquid Modernity, Strangers at Our Door and Retrotopia. Izabela Wagner is Professor of Sociology at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw and the author of Bauman: A Biography.

“Brilliant, witty, sometimes moving autobiographical texts by Zygmunt Bauman, comprehensively annotated by Bauman’s accomplished biographer.  Fascinating reading for all interested in Bauman’s scholarly writings.”Jan Tomasz Gross, Princeton University“When I read certain authors on war, I find myself engaged in a kind of vastness of complexities. Some wars are simply wars. But other, often less-known wars are devastating in their capacity to alter an epoch, even if this is not immediately evident. In his own way, I find that Zygmunt Bauman invites us to enter what appears as something familiar but opens up gradually to worlds that can transform our understanding of the familiar.”Saskia Sassen, Columbia University“a sharp, rewarding insight into one of recent history’s most renowned thinkers… The value of [Bauman’s] books will not last an eternity – but they will continue to be read long enough. My Life in Fragments is among the best of them.”Danny Dorling, LSE Review of Books“This chronicle of a soul in relation to society affords a fascinating glimpse into how deeply [Bauman’s] personal experiences inflected both his ideas and the controversies they still excite…  this hopeful book is both a beautifully narrated memoir and a reflection on memoir.”Books and Ideas“a rich­ly tex­tured series of essays that’ve been gath­ered togeth­er for the first time … My Life in Frag­ments offers rich infor­ma­tion that deep­ens our sense of the bio­graph­i­cal con­text of Bauman’s core ideas.” Jewish Book Council

• Introduction Notes1 The Story of Just Another Life?3 January 19974 January5 January6 January9 January11 January12 January16 January28 January30 January31 January7 FebruaryNotes2 Where I Came FromNotes3 The Fate of a Refugee and SoldierNotes4 MaturationNotes5 Who Am I?Notes6 Before Dusk FallsNotes7 Looking Back – for the Last TimeNotesAppendix: Source Material