Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds.

• Series Introduction page ix Translator’s Note xiiEditors’ Introduction: History and Politics in the Sociological Imagination of Zygmunt Bauman xiv1 Tractate on Bureaucracy (1957) 12 On the Political Mechanisms of Bourgeois Democracy (1961) 213 The Limitations of ‘Perfect Planning’ (1966) 384 The End of Polish Jewry: A Sociological Review (1969) 635 At the Crossroads in a World at the Crossroads (c.1970) 756 Between State and Society (1973) 807 On the Maturation of Socialism (1981) 998 Exit Visas and Entry Tickets: Paradoxes of Jewish Assimilation (1988) 1099 The Holocaust: Fifty Years Later (1994) 14110 Names of Suffering, Names of Shame (2001) 15411 Britain after Blair, or Thatcherism Consolidated (2007) 16312 Panic among the Parasites, or For Whom the Bell Tolls (2010) 17813 The Haunting Spectre of ‘Westphalian Sovereignty’ (2012) 18614 Europe’s Adventure: Still Unfinished? (2016) 198Notes 209Acknowledgements 226Index 228

“We live in an age when in every decade one day occurs – such as 9/11 or 24 February – after which matters taken firmly for granted yesterday are abruptly swept away. It is the rare sociological genius of Zygmunt Bauman that helps us to make critical sense of such liquidity.”Claus Offe“Among émigré intellectuals, ranging from the Frankfurt School to Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin, Zygmunt Bauman stands out for his intimate knowledge and experience of 'really existing socialisms' and their demise after 1989. In this new essay collection, drawn from his archives, we experience the sizzling quality of his insights and the beauty of his prose as he reflects on bureaucracy, class vs status, the new anti-Semitism and much else.”Seyla Benhabib“The three volumes of Selected Writings offer a backbone to all this work of scholarship and enthusiasm. A remarkable achievement, indeed, both by the author, and by his editors and interpreters. A valuable resource for research, as well as a companion for a dip, a chance to see that mind at work once more: the wanderer above the sea of fog, then and now.”Peter Beilharz, Thesis Eleven