Zygmunt Bauman citations

Zygmunt Bauman, né le 19 novembre 1925 à Poznań et mort le 9 janvier 2017 à Leeds , est un sociologue possédant la double nationalité britannique et polonaise. Il était professeur émérite à l'université de Leeds.

Il est un des principaux représentants de l'École postmoderne.

✵ 19. novembre 1925 – 9. janvier 2017
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Zygmunt Bauman: Citations en anglais

“Pascal suggests that people avoid looking inwards and keep running in the vain hope of escaping a face-to-face encounter with their predicament, which is to face up to their utter insignificance whenever they recall the infinity of the universe. And he censures them and castigates them for doing so. It is, he says, that morbid inclination to hassle around rather than stay put which ought to be blamed for all unhappiness. One could, however, object that Pascal, even if only implicitly, does not present us with the choice between a happy and an unhappy life, but between two kinds of unhappiness: whether we choose to run or stay put, we are doomed to be unhappy. The only (putative and misleading!) advantage of being on the move (as long as we keep moving) is that we postpone for a while the moment of that truth. This is, many would agree, a genuine advantage of running out of rather than staying in our rooms—and most certainly it is a temptation difficult to resist. And they will choose to surrender to that temptation, allow themselves to be allured and seduced—if only because as long as they remain seduced they will manage to stave off the danger of discovering the compulsion and addiction that prompts them to run, screened by what is called “freedom of choice” or “self-assertion.””

But, inevitably, they will end up longing for the virtues they once possessed but have now abandoned for the sake of getting rid of the agony which practicing them, and taking responsibility for that practice, might have caused.
Source: The Art of Life (2008), p. 37.

“Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.”

[paraphrasing the view of Seneca], p. 34.
The Art of Life (2008)

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