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Zygmunt Bauman Living Bibliography

In partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Science, and with the Special Collections Archive Team in the University’s Brotherton Library, our Archive project began in 2018 by compiling a complete and multi-lingual ‘living bibliography’.

This living bibliography is a freely available as an open access resource for the public.

If you are aware of any omissions, in either English or Polish, please contact the Special Collections team in the University Library.

Books (in English and Polish)

The list includes Polish titles that were either never translated into English or published in Polish before they were translated into English.

  • (1957): Zagadnienia centralizmu demokratycznego w pracach Lenina [On Democratic Centralism in the Works of Lenin]. Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza.
  • (1959): Socjalizm brytyjski: Źródła, filozofia, doktryna polityczna [British Socialism: Origins, Philosophy, Political Doctrine]. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.
  • (1960): Cztery szkice socjologiczne [Career: Four Sociological Sketches]. Warszawa: Iskry.
  • (1960): Klasa – ruch – elita. Studium socjologiczne dziejów angielskiego ruchu robotniczego. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. English translation was published in 1972; see below.
  • (1960): Z dziejów demokratycznego ideału [The History of the Democratic Ideal]. Warszawa: Iskry.
  • (1961): Z zagadnień współczesnej socjologii amerykańskiej [On Contemporary American Sociology]. Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza.
  • (1962): Socjologia na co dzień [Everyday Sociology]. Warszawa: Iskry.
  • (1962): Społeczeństwo, w którym żyjemy [The Society We Live In]. Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza.
  • (1962): Zarys socjologii. Zagadnienia i pojęcia [Outline of Sociology: Issues and Concepts]. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.
  • (1962): (with S. Chodak, J. Strojnowski, J. Banaszkiewicz), Systemy partyjne współczesnego kapitalizmu [The Party Systems in the Contemporary Capitalism], Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza.
  • (1963): Idee, ideały, ideologie [Ideas, Ideals, Ideologies]. Warszawa: Iskry.
  • (1964): Wizje ludzkiego świata. Studia nad społeczną genezą i funkcją socjologii [Visions of the Human World: Studies on the Social Genesis and Function of Sociology]. Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza.
  • (1964): Zarys marksistowskiej teorii społeczeństwa [Outline of the the Marxist Theory of Society]. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.
  • (1966): Kultura i Społeczeństwo. Preliminaria [Culture and Society: Preliminaries]. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.
  • (1972): Between Class and Elite. The Evolution of the British Labour Movement. A Sociological Study, Manchester: Manchester University Press. The book was originally published in Polish in 1960; see above.
  • (1973): Culture as Praxis. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. [Republished in 1999 with a new foreword].
  • (1976): The Active Utopia. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd
  • (1976): Towards a Critical Sociology: An Essay on Common-Sense and Emancipation. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  • (1978): Hermeneutics and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding. London: Hutchinson.
  • (1982): Memories of Class: The Pre-History and After-Life of Class. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  • (1987): Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Postmodernity and Intellectuals. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • (1988): Freedom. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
  • (1989): Modernity and the Holocaust. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • (1990): Thinking Sociologically. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
  • (1990): Paradoxes of Assimilation. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
  • (1991): Modernity and Ambivalence. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • (1991): Postmodernity: Chance or Menace? Lancaster: Centre for the Study of Cultural Values.
  • (1992): Intimations of Postmodernity. London: Routledge.
  • (1992): Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • (1993): Postmodern Ethics. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
  • (1994): Alone Again: Ethics After Certainty. London: Demos.
  • (1994). Dwa szkice o moralności ponowoczesnej [Two Sketches on Postmodern Ethics]. Warszawa: Instytut Kultury.
  • (1995): Life in Fragments. Essays in Postmodern Morality. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
  • (1995): Ciało i przemoc w obliczu ponowoczesności [The Body and violence in the contexts of postmodernity], Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika.
  • (1997): Postmodernity and its Discontents. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • (1997): (with R. Kubicki, A. Zeidler-Janiszewska), Humanista w ponowoczesnym świecie. Rozmowy o sztuce życia, nauce, życiu sztuki i innych sprawach. [A humanist in postmodern world. Conversations about life, science, the life of art and other things], Poznań: Zysk i i S-ka.
  • (1998): Work, Consumerism and the New Poor. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
  • (1998): Globalization: The Human Consequences. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • (1999): In Search of Politics. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • (2000): Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • (2001): The Individualized Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • (2001): Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2001): Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman, with Keith Tester. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2001): Thinking Sociologically, 2nd edition, with Tim May. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
  • (2002): Society Under Siege. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2003): Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2003): City of fears, city of hopes. London: Goldsmith's College.
  • (2004): Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Outcasts. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2004): Europe: An Unfinished Adventure. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2004): Identity: Conversations with Benedetto Vecchi. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2005): Liquid Life. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2006): Liquid Fear. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2005): (with G. Gajewska), Nadzieje i obawy płynnej nowoczesności [Hopes and Fears of Liquid Modernity], Gniezno: Fundacja Collegium Europaeum Gnesnense.
  • (2006): Moralność w niestabilnym świecie [Morality in an instable world]. Poznań: Księgarnia św. Wojciecha.
  • (2007): Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2007): Consuming Life. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2007): Konsumenci w społeczeństwie konsumentów [Consumers in the society of Consumers]. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego.
  • (2008): Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • (2008): The Art of Life. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2008): Bauman o popkulturze. Wypisy. [Bauman on popculture. Excerpts]. (eds.) M. Halawa, P. Wróbel, Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne [the excerpts of Bauman’s papers on popular culture].
  • (2009): (with R. Kubicki, A. Zeidler-Janiszewska), Życie w kontekstach. Rozmowy o tym, co za nami i o tym, co przed nami [Life in contexts. Conversations about what lies behind us and what lies ahead of us], Warszawa: WAiP. (A part of this book was published previously in Polish in 1997 as: Humanista w ponowoczesnym świecie. Rozmowy o sztuce życia, nauce, życiu sztuki i innych sprawach).
  • (2010). 44 Letters from the Liquid Modern World. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2010): (with C. Rovirisa-Madrazo), Living on Borrowed Time: Conversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2010): Między chwilą a pięknem. O sztuce w rozpędzonym świecie [Between the moment and beauty. On art in a runaway world] Łódź: Wydawnictwo Officyna.
  • (2010): Z deszczu pod rynnę? Przyczynek do dziejów kulturowego patronatu [From being rained on to being under a gutter? A contribution to the history of cultural patronage] Warszawa: Narodowe Centrum Kultury.
  • (2011): Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2011): Culture in a Liquid Modern World. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2011): Liquid modern challenges to education, Lecture given at the Coimbra Group Annual Conference - Padova, 26 May 2011, Padova: Padova University Press.
  • (2012): (with M. Bałka), Bauman / Bałka, Warszawa: Narodowe Centrum Kultury.
  • (2013): (with D. Lyon), Liquid Surveillance. A Conversation, Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2012): (with R. Mazzeo), On Education, Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2012): This is not a Diary, Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2013): Does the Richness of a Few Benefit us all? Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2013): (with L. Donskis), Moral Blindness, Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2013): (with S. Obirek), O Bogu i człowieku, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. English translation was published in 2015; see below.
  • (2013): (with K. Tester, M. H. Jacobsen), What use is Sociology?, Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2014): (with C. Bordoni), State of Crisis, Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2015): (with R. Raud), Practices of Selfhood, Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2015): (with I. Bauman, J. Kociatkiewicz, M. Kostera), Management in a Liquid Modern World, Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2015): (with S. Obirek), Of God and Man, Cambridge: Polity. The book was originally published in Polish in 2013; see above.
  • (2015): (with S. Obirek), On the World and Ourselves, Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2016): (with L. Donskis), Liquid Evil, Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2016): (with R. Mazzeo), In Praise of Literature, Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2016): Strangers at our Door. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2016): (with E. Mauro), Babel, Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2017): A Chronicle of Crisis, 2011-16. London: Social Europe Edition.
  • (2017): Retrotopia. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2017): Szkice z teorii kultury, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar. English translation was published in 2018 as: Sketches in the Theory of Culture. Cambridge: Polity.
  • (2018): (with T. Leoncini), Born Liquid, Cambridge: Polity.

Articles and Book Chapters (mostly in English and Polish)

The list includes all English and Polish Bauman’s articles and book chapters that were known for the editors. Where the Polish paper was translated into English or vice versa, both versions are included.

  • (1953): O roli mas w historii [On the Historical Role of the Masses], with Wiatr J., Myśl Filozoficzna, 3: 69-99.
  • (1953): Obiektywny charakter praw przyrody i społeczeństwa. W świetle pracy J. W. Stalina: ‘Ekonomiczne problemy socjalizmu w ZSRR’ [The objective character of the laws of nature and society. In the light of J. W. Stalin's work, 'Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR’], with Wiatr J., Zeszyty Społeczno-Naukowe ‘Po Prostu’, Warszawa, pp. 1-16.
  • (1954): Marksa ‘Przyczynek do krytyki ekonomii politycznej’. W związku z nowym polskim wydaniem [Marx’s ‘A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’. The new Polish edition]. Myśl Filozoficzna, 2: 157-187.
  • (1955): Od mitu „społeczeństwa managerów do apologii dywersji i agresji [From the Myth of ‘Managerial Society’ to An Apology for Diversion and Aggression] Myśl Filozoficzna, 1: 168–196.
  • (1956): Solidaryzm klasowy Labour Party w doktrynie i polityce [Class Solidarity in Labour Party Doctrine and Politics] Myśl Filozoficzna, 1: 135-163.
  • (1956): O przezwyciężaniu dezintegracji filozofii markistowskiej [On the Overcoming of the Disintegration of Marxist Philosophy] Myśl Filozoficzna, 6: 133-140.
  • (1956): Problemy nacjonalizacji przemysłu w programie i polityce brytyjskiej Partii Pracy [The Problems of Nationalisation of Industry, in the Programme and Politics of the British Labour Party] Nowe Drogi, 5: 77-89.
  • (1956): Wczoraj i jutro naszej socjologii [Our Sociology Yesterday and Tomorrow] with: M. Hirszowicz, W. Wesołowski, J. Wiatr, Nowa Kultura, 46: 1, 5.
  • (1956): Socjalizm a socjaldemokracja [Socialism and Social Democracy], Po Prostu, 11: 2
  • (1956): Żeby nie powtórzyło się więcej [To Strive to make it not happen again] Po Prostu, 15: 6.
  • (1956): O dogmatyzmie przestrzenno-czasowym i kalendarzowym kryterium prawdy… semantycznie [On spatio-temporal and calendar dogmatism and the criterion of truth ... semantically], Po Prostu, 19: 5, 8.
  • (1956): Przeciwko monopolowi w nauce [Against the Monopoly in Science], Po prostu, 48: 6.
  • (1956): Refleksje nad podziałem klasowym [Reflections on the class division] Po Prostu, 50: 5.
  • (1957): Refleksji ciąg dalszy [A Continuation of Reflections], Po Prostu, 11: 1, 2, 5
  • (1957): Filozofia fabianizmu [Philosophy of Fabianism] Studia Filozoficzne, 2: 24-57.
  • (1957): Kilka uwag teoretycznych o zasadzie centralizmu demokratycznego [Some Theorhetical Remarks on Democratic Centralism] Nowe Drogi, 3: 91-101.
  • (1957): Marksizm a socjologia współczesna [Marxism and Contemporary Sociology], with Wiatr J., Myśl Filozoficzna, 1: 3-23.
  • (1957): O potrzebie socjologii partii [On the Need for a Sociology of the Party] Myśl Filozoficzna, 2: 3-26.
  • (1957): Vilfredo Pareto i teoria elit [Vilfredo Pareto and the Theory of the Elites] Myśl Filozoficzna, 3: 3-33.
  • (1957): Traktat o biurokracji [Tractate on Bureaucracy] Twórczość, 9: 103-118.
  • (1957): Quo vadis America?, Nowa Kultura, 31: 2.
  • (1957): Demokratyzm ‘partii demokratycznych’, czyli poszukiwania na błędnym tropie [Democratism of 'democratic parties', or an exploration on the wrong path], Polityka, 16: 5-6 (part I), 17: 3 (part II).
  • (1957): Laburzystowskie paradoksy [Paradoxes of Labour], Polityka, 30: 6 (part I), 31: 4, 7 (part II)
  • (1958): Ewolucja elity angielskiego ruchu robotniczego [Evolution of Elite Formation in the English Workers’ Movement] Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 1: 25-122.
  • (1959): Socjologia Vilfreda Pareta [The Sociology of Vilfredo Pareto] Archiwum Historii Filozofii i Myśl Społecznej, 5: 5-35.
  • (1959): Śladami legendy o pucybucie [Tracing the tale of the shoeshine boy], Nowa Kultura, 1: 3.
  • (1959): No więc socjologia. I co dalej? (I) [So sociology. And what furthermore?], Nowa Kultura, 22: 3.
  • (1959): No więc socjologia. I co dalej? (II) Wartości oby nie zagubione [So sociology. And what furthermore (II) Let’s hope our values are not lost], Nowa Kultura, 23: 3-4.
  • (1960): O zawodzie socjologa [On the Profession of the Sociologist] Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 3: 163-176.
  • (1960): Robotnik: z dziejów stereotypu [The Worker: The History of a Stereotype] Studia Filozoficzne, 4: 2-8.
  • (1961): Wzory sukcesu warszawskiej młodzieży [Values and Standards of Success of the Warsaw Youth] Studia Socjologiczne, 3: 103-138. English version was published in 1962 in The Polish Sociological Bulletin; see below.
  • (1961): Z zagadnień politycznego mechanizmu demokracji burżuazyjnej [On the Political Mechanisms of Bourgeois Democracy] Nowe Drogi, 1: 129-141.
  • (1962): Wariacje na tematy socjologiczne [Variations on Sociological Themes], Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 2: 47-64.
  • (1962): Członkowie partii i aktyw partyjny w zakładzie produkcyjnym [Social, Structure of the Party Organisation in Industrial Works] Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 4: 55-69. English version: 1962, Social Structure of the Party Organization in Industrial Works, The Polish Sociological Bulletin, 3-4, 50-64.
  • (1962): George Lundberg, czyli dehumanizacja humanistyki [George Lundeberg, or the Dehumanisation of the Humanities] Studia Filozoficzne, 4: 3-38.
  • (1962): Struktura władzy społeczności lokalnej [The Power Structure of a Local Community], Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 12: 7-30.
  • (1962): O pojęciu władzy [On the Concept of Power] Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 13: 7-28.
  • (1962): Tendencje i szkoły w socjologii współczesnej. Próba typologii [Schools and Tendencies in Contemporary Sociology. An Attempts at a Typology] Studia Socjologiczne, 1: 5-41.
  • (1962): Parsonsa teoria czynności i teoria systemu społecznego [The Parsonian Theory of Action and Social System] Studia Socjologiczne, 2: 71-94. Also published in: (1965): Filozofia i socjologia XX wieku [Philosophy and Sociology of the 20th century], 2, Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, 169-199.
  • (1962): Values and Standards of Success of the Warsaw Youth. The Polish Sociological Bulletin, 1-2: 77-90. The article published originally in Polish in 1961; see above.
  • (1962): C. Wright Mills, Argumenty, 13: 3.
  • (1963): Antonio Gramsci – czyli socjologia w działaniu [Antonio Gramsci – Sociology in Action] Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 1: 19–34.
  • (1963): Dwa typy inżynierii społecznej [Two Types of Social Engineering], Studia Filozoficzne, 2: 53-85.
  • (1963): Studium o brytyjskim kapitalizmie [The Study of British Capitalism], Nowe Drogi, 9: 123-127.
  • (1963): Marksa wizja ludzkiego świata [Marx’ vision of the human world], Argumenty, 17: 1, 11.
  • (1963): Perspektywa antyalienacyjna [Anti-alienation perspective], Argumenty, 19: 3.
  • (1964): Metodologiczne zagadnienia badań and kulturą robotniczą [Methodological Issues of the Study of the Culture of Workers] Studia Socjologiczne, 1: 19-34.
  • (1964): Bieguny analizy kulturowej [Two Opposite Approaches to Cultural Analysis] Studia Socjologiczne, 3: 51-91.
  • (1964): W sprawie urbanizacji wsi [On the Urbanisation of Villages], Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 3: 51-70. An extended version of this paper was published as a chapter in Bauman’s book Sketches in the Theory of Culture under the title: ‘Economics, Culture, and Typologies of Societies’.
  • (1964): Economic Growth, Social Structure, Elite Formation: The Case of Poland. International Social Science Journal, 2: 203-216.
  • (1965): Osobowość – kultura – struktura społeczna [Personality – Culture – Social Structure], Studia Socjologiczne, 2: 203-233.
  • (1965): Social Structure and Innovational Personality, The Polish Sociological Bulletin, 1: 54-59.
  • (1965): Dwie notatki na marginesie kultury masowej [Two Notes on the Margin of Mass Culture], Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 1: 35–50. English version was published in 1966 in The Polish Sociological Bulletin; see below. The paper was also published as a chapter in Bauman’s book Sketches in the Theory of Culture under the title: ‘Masses, Classes, Elites: Semiotics and the Re-Imagination of the Sociological Function of Culture’.
  • (1965): Trzy uwagi o problemach współczesnych wychowania [Three Remarks on Contemporary Educational Problems] Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny, 4: 3–16. English version published in 1966 in The Polish Sociological Bulletin: and in 1967 in International Social Science Journal; see boelw. The paper was also published as a chapter in Bauman’s book Sketches in the Theory of Culture under the title: ‘Three Observations About Problems of Contemporary Education’.
  • (1966): Kultura i Społeczeństwo: Związki semantyczne i genetyczne [Culture and Society: Semantic and Genetic Connections] Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 1: 71-98.
  • (1966): „Kulturologia” a dychotomiczność świata ludzkiego ["Culturology" and the dichotomy of the sociel world]. Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 2: 23-35. The paper was published as a chapter in Bauman’s book Sketches in the Theory of Culture under the title: ‘Cultural and Extra-Cultural Organisation of Society’.
  • (1966): ‘Kulturowe determinanty procesu poznawczego (szkic zagadnienia)’ [Cultural Determinants of the Process of Cognition. (A Sketch of the Problem)], Studia Filozoficzne, 4: 107-118. The paper published as a chapter in Bauman’s book Sketches in the Theory of Culture under the title: ‘Cultural Determinants of the Research Process”.
  • (1966): Three Remarks on Contemporary Educational Problems. The Polish Sociological Bulletin, 1: 77-89. The article published originally in Polish in 1965; see above.
  • (1966): Two Notes of Mass Culture, The Polish Sociological Bulletin, 1, 58-74. The article published originally in Polish in 1965; see above.
  • (1966): Economic Growth, Social Stratification, Political Elite. In Bendix & Lipset (eds.) Class, Status and Power, 2nd. Ed. New York: Free Press.
  • (1966): The Limitations of Perfect Planning, Co-existence, 2: 145- 162.
  • (1966): Möglichkeithen und metodogische Klippen soziogischer Forschungen. Deutsche ZeitSchrift für Philosophie, 1: 32-44.
  • (1967): In Memory of Julian Hochfeld, Polish Sociological Bulletin, 2: 5-7; Published also in 1967 in: , 1: 203-204.
  • (1967): Modern Times, Modern Marxism. Social Research, 3: 399-415. Also published as (1969): Modern Times: Modern Marxism. In Berger, Peter L. (ed.): Marxism and Sociology: Views from Eastern Europe. New York: Appleton-Century- Crofts, pp.1-17.
  • (1967): Znak, struktura, kultura [Sign, Structure and Culture] Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 3: 69-95. The paper was published as a chapter in Bauman’s book Sketches in the Theory of Culture under the title: ‘Towards a Semiotic Function of Culture’.
  • (1967): Dyskusja [Discussion] Zygmunt Bauman et al. Kultura i Społeczeństwo , 4: 85-131.
  • (1967): Człowiek i znak [Man and Sign] Studia Socjologiczne, 3: 49-82. The paper published also as a chapter in Bauman’s book Sketches in the Theory of Culture under the title ‘Man and Sign’.
  • (1967): Image of Man in Modern Sociology, The Polish Sociological Bulletin, 1: 12-21.
  • (1967): Człowiek i historia w 'Kapitale’ Karola Marksa’ [Man and History in Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’] Nowe Drogi, : 34-45.
  • (1967): Notatki poza czasem [Notes Beyond Time] Twórczość, 10: 77-89.
  • (1967): Some Problems in Contemporary Education, International Social Science Journal, 3: 325-337.
  • (1967): Polish Youth and Politics, Polish Round Table, 1: 69-77.
  • (1968): Semiotics and the Function of Culture, Social Science Information, 3: 19-34.
  • (1968): Marx and the Contemporary Theory of Culture, Social Science Information, 3: 69-80. Also published as: 1969, Marxism and the Contemporary Theory of Culture. In Marx and Contemporary Scientific Thought. The Hague: Mouton, pp. 483-497.
  • (1968): Macrosociology and Social Research in Contemporary Poland, The Social Sciences: Problems and Orientations, Selected Studies, The Hague, Paris: Mouton/ UNESCO, pp. 169-177.
  • (1968): O frustracji i kuglarzach [On Frustration and the Conjurers] Kultura, 12: 5-21.
  • (1969): Przedmowa [Preface] In: Wydarzenia marcowe 1968 [The March Events of 1968] Paryż: Instytut Literacki [Paris: Literary Institute], pp. 7-23.
  • (1969): The End of Polish Jewry – A Sociological Review, Bulletin on Soviet and East European Jewish Affairs, 3: 3-8.
  • (1971): Social Dissent in the East European Political System, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 1: 25-51. Polish version: 1974, Konflikty społeczne we wschodnioeuropejskim systemie politycznym, Aneks, 4: 17-53.
  • (1971): Use of Information: When Social Information Becomes Desired, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1, 20-31.
  • (1971): 20 Years After: Crisis of Soviet-type Systems, Problems of Communism, 6, 45-53.
  • (1972): The Second Generation Socialism. A Review of Socio-Cultural Trends in Contemporary Polish Society, In L. Shapiro, (ed.) Political Oppositions in One-Party States. London: Macmillan, 217-240. [Polish version: 1973, Socjalizm drugiego pokolenia. Przegląd tendencji społeczno-kulturowych we współczesnym społeczeństwie polskim, Aneks, 2: 36-58].
  • (1972): Praxis: The Controversial Culture-Society Paradigm, In T. Shanin, (ed.) Rules of the Game: Cross-Disciplinary Essays in Scholarly Thought. London: Tavistock, pp. 303-321.
  • (1972): Culture, Values and Science of Society, The University of Leeds Review, 2: 185-203.
  • (1973): The Structuralist Promise, The British Journal of Sociology, 1: 67-83.
  • (1973): On the Philosophical Status of Ethnomethodology, Social Review, 1: 5-23.
  • (1973): Between State and Society. International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, 1: 9-25.
  • (1974): Officialdom and Class: Bases of Inequality in Socialist Society, In F. Parkin, (ed.) The Social Analysis of Class Structure, London: Tavistock, pp. 129-148.
  • (1976): The Party in the System Management Phase: Change and Continuity’, in A.C. Janos, (ed.) Authoritarian Politics in Communist Europe: Uniformity and Diversity in One-Party States. Berkeley, CA: Institute of International Studies, University of California, pp. 81-108.
  • (1976): East Europe and Soviet Social Science: A Case Study in Stimulus Diffusion. In R. Szporluk, (ed.) The Influence of East Europe and the Soviet West on the USSR. New York: Praeger, pp. 91-116.
  • (1977) Stalin i rewolucja chłopska. Studium dialektyki pana i niewolnika [Stalin and the peasant revolution. Study of the master’s and slave dialectic] Aneks, 15: 102–139. English version was published in 1985 in Leeds Occasional Papers in Sociology, see below.
  • (1979): Comment on Eastern Europe by Zygmunt Bauman, Studies in Comparative Communism, 2-3: 184-189.
  • (1981): On the Maturation of Socialism, Telos, 47: 48-54.
  • (1982): Bez precedensu (Myśli powstałe w toku lektury artykułu Włodzimierza Brusa) [Unprecedented (Thoughts that arose in while reading the article by Włodzimierz Brus)], Aneks, 32: 21-43.
  • (1983): Ideology and the 'Weltanschauung' of the Intellectuals, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, 1-2: 104-117.
  • (1983): Industrialism, Consumerism and Power, Theory, Culture & Society, 3: 32-43.
  • (1984): Symposium, Telos, 60: 173-178.
  • (1985): On the Origins of Civilisation: A Historical Note, Theory, Culture & Society, 3: 7-14.
  • (1985): Stalin and the Peasant Revolution: A Case Study in the Dialectics of Master and Slave, Leeds Occasional Papers in Sociology, 19: 1-54. The article published originally in Polish in 1977; see above.
  • (1986): Hidden Economy, East and West. Berkeley, CA: University of California, pp. 1-58. The article based on a paper presented at the Conference on the Soviet Second Economy held in January 1980 at the Kennan Institute of the Advanced Russian Studies in Washington D.C.
  • (1986): Symposium on Soviet Peasants (a contribution to the debate), Telos, 68: 124-127.
  • (1986/7): The Left as the Counter-Culture of Modernity. Telos, 70: 81-93.
  • (1987): The Importance of Being a Marxist, In W. Outhwaite, M. Mulkay (eds.) Social Theory and Social Criticism: Essays from Tom Bottomore. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 1-9.
  • (1987): Intellectuals in East-Central Europe: Continuity and Change, East European Politics and Societies, 2: 162-186.
  • (1987): Freedom at a Price: Postmodernism and Consumerism. Unstately Pleasure Dome. New Statesman, 25 September, 20-21.
  • (1987): From Here to Modernity – Redefining the Project of the Left. Fighting the Wrong Shadow, New Statesman, 23 October, 20-22.
  • (1988): On Immoral Reason and Illogical Morality, Polin, 3: 294-330. Polish version: 1988, Rzecz o niemoralnym rozumie i nielogicznej moralności, Aneks 51/52: 163-173].
  • (1988): Exit Visas and Entry Tickets: Paradoxes of Jewish Assimilation, Telos, 77; 45-77.
  • (1988): The Twisted Road to Perestroika, The Jewish Quartely, 3: 9-15.
  • (1988): Sociology after the Holocaust, The British Journal of Sociology, 4: 469-497. Polish version:1990, Socjologia po Zagładzie, Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 2: 25-51.
  • (1988): Viewpoint: Sociology and Postmodernity, Sociological Review, 4: 790-813.
  • (1988): Britain's Exit from Politics, New Statesman & Society, 8: 34-38.
  • (1988): Is There a Postmodern Sociology? Theory, Culture & Society, 5 (2-3): 217-237.
  • (1988/9): Strangers: The Social Construction of Universality and Particularity, Telos, 78: 7-42.
  • (1989): Legislators and Interpreters: Culture as Ideology of Intellectuals, In: H. Haferkamp, (ed.) Social Structure and Culture, Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 313-332.
  • (1989): Hermeneutics and Modern Social Theory, In D. Held, J.B. Thompson, (eds): Social Theory of Modern Societies: Giddens and His Critics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 34-55.
  • (1989): Poland: on Its Own, Telos, 79: 47-68.
  • (1989): Sociology and Postmodernity, The Polish Sociological Bulletin, 3-4: 81-98. Polish version: 1992, Socjologia i ponowożytność, In: K. Kozakiewicz, E. Mokrzycki, M. J. Siemeik (eds.), Racjonalność współczesności. Między filozofią a socjologią [Rationality of the contemporaneity. Between philosophy and sociology], Warszawa: PWN, pp. 9-29.
  • (1989): Sociological Responses to Postmodernity, Thesis Eleven, 23: 35-63.
  • (1989): Making Polish-Jewish History, The Jewish Quarterly, 2: 26-31.
  • (1989): The Homecoming of Unwelcome Strangers, The Jewish Quarterly, 3: 14-23.
  • (1989): The War Against Forgetfulness, The Jewish Quarterly, 4: 44-47.
  • (1990): From Pillars to Post, Marxism Today, 34: 20-25.
  • (1990): Effacing the Face: On the Social Management of Moral Proximity, Theory, Culture & Society, 1: 5-38. Polish version: 1990, Zacieranie twarzy. O społecznym zawiadywaniu dystansem moralnym, Więź, 11/12: 84-105.
  • (1990): Assimilation and Enlightenment, Society, 6: 71-81.
  • (1990): Philosophical Affinities of Postmodern Sociology, Sociological Review, 3: 441-454.
  • (1990): Modernity and Ambivalence, Theory, Culture & Society, 2-3: 143-169.
  • (1990): The Twilight of the New Politics, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, 1-3: 230-232.
  • (1990): Upadek prawodawców [The Fall of Legislators], Studia Filozoficzne, 4: 3-32.
  • (1990-1): Communism: A Post-Mortem. Praxis International, 3-4: 185-192.
  • (1991): Critical Theory, In H. Etzkowitz, R. M. Glassman, (eds.) The Renescence of Social Theory: Classical and Contemporary. Itasca, IL: F. E. Peacock, pp. 277-303.
  • (1991): The Social Manipulation of Morality, Moralizing Actors, Adiaphorizing Action, Theory, Culture & Society, 1: 139-153.
  • (1991): A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity, Thesis Eleven, 29: 33- 46. Polish version: Socjologiczna teoria postmoderny, in A. Zeidler-Janiszewska, (ed.) Postmodernizm w perspektywie filozoficzno-kulturoznawczej. Warszawa: Instytut Kultury, pp. 7-25.
  • (1991): Living Without an Alternative. Political Quarterly, 1: 35- 44.
  • (1991): Jacek Tarkowski: In Memoriam, Telos, 89: 102.
  • (1991): Adolf Rudnicki: The Jew and the Polish Writer, The Jewish Quarterly, 4: 39-45.
  • (1991): Postmodernizm a socjalizm, Literatura na Świecie 6: 268–279.
  • (1992): The Polish Predicament: A Model In Search of Class Interests, Telos, 92: 113-130.
  • (1992): Soil, Blood and Identity, Sociological Review, 4: 675- 701. Polish version: 1993, Ziemia, krew, tożsamość, Przegląd polonijny, 4: 5-24.
  • (1992): Love in Adversity: On the State and the Intellectuals, and the State of the Intellectuals. Thesis Eleven, 31: 81-104. Polish version: 1992, Miłość wbrew przeciwnościom : intelektualiści a państwo. Teksty Drugie, 4: 7-19.
  • (1992): Survival as a Social Construct, Theory, Culture & Society, 1: 1-36.
  • (1992). Simmel ou l’éclosion de l’expérience postmoderne [Simmel or the blossoming of the postmodern experience] Sociétes: Revue des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, 35: 3-16.
  • (1992): Life-world and Expertise: Social Production of Dependency, In: N. Stehr, R. V. Ericson (eds.), The Culture and Power of Knowledge, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York, pp. 81-106.
  • (1992): Foreword, In: F. Crespi, Social Action and Power, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. vii-x.
  • (1992): O etyczności świata [On the Ethicality of the World], In: A. Jasińska-Kania, W. Wesołowski, J. Wiatr (eds.), Demokracja i socjalizm. Księga poświęcona pamięci Juliana Hochfelda [Democracy and Socialism. A Book Dedicated to Memory of Julian Hochfeld], Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa, pp. 15-40.
  • (1993): The Sweet Scent of Decomposition. In C. Rojek, B.S.Turner, (eds.) Forget Baudrillard? London: Routledge, pp. 22-46.
  • (1993): ‘A Postmodern Revolution?’ In: J. Frentzel-Zagórska, (ed.) From a One Party State to Democracy: Transition in Eastern Europe, Poznań Sudies in the Philosophy of Science and Humanities, 32, Amsterdam: Edition Rodopi, pp. 3-19.
  • (1993): ‘Dismantling a Patronage State’, In: J. Frentzel-Zagórska, (ed.) From a One Party State to Democracy: Transition in Eastern Europe, Poznań Sudies in the Philosophy of Science and Humanities, 32. Amsterdam: Edition Rodopi, pp. 139-154.
  • (1993): Europe of the Tribes: On Regional Identities and the Fear of Difference – Europa der Stämme: Über Regionale Identitäten und den Schrecken der Uneindedutigkeit, Perspektiven, 15: 3-8.
  • (1993): The Scandal of Death, New Statesman & Society, 6: 20- 22.
  • (1993): Modernity, In J. Krieger, Joel (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 592-596.
  • (1993): (with D. Vital, C. Bermant; J. Neusner), At the Crossroad of History: Is there a Future for the Jewish People? The Jewish Quarterly, 2: 26-41.
  • (1993): The Holocaust: Fifty Years Later, In: D. Grinberg (ed.) The Holocaust Fifty Years Later. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG/Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw, pp. 23-33.
  • (1993): Europe of Nations, Europe of Tribes. Sociologisk Rapportserie, Copenhagen: Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, 2: 2-17.
  • (1993): Racism, anti-racism, and moral progress, Arena, 1: 9-21.
  • (1993): Ponowoczesne wzory osobowe [Postmodern personality Patterns]. Studia Socjologiczne 2: 7-31.
  • (1993): Walter Benjamin, the Intellectual, New Formations, 20: 47-58. Reprinted as a chapter in: 1998, L. Marcus, L. Nead (eds.) The Actuality of Walter Benjamin, London: Lawrence and Mishart, pp. 72-84.. Polish version: 1993, Walter Benjamin – intelektualista, In: A. Zeidler-Janiszewska (ed.), Drobne rysy w ciągłej katastrofie… - obecność Waltera Benjamina w kulturze współczesne [Small scratches in a constant catastrophe ... - Walter Benjamin's presence in contemporary culture], Warszawa: Instytut Kultury, pp. 15-26. Also published in 2005 as an afterword to a book: W. Benjamin, Pasaże, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, pp. 1151-1164].
  • (1993): Przedstawienie na pustyni [Desert Spectacular]: In: A. Zeidler-Janiszewska (ed.), Drobne rysy w ciągłej katastrofie… - obecność Waltera Benjamina w kulturze współczesne [Small scratches in a constant catastrophe ... - Walter Benjamin's presence in contemporary culture], Warszawa: Instytut Kultury, pp. 71-84. Published in English in 1994 in: K. Tester (Ed.). The Flâneur, London – New York: Routledge, pp. 138-158, see below.
  • (1994): Desert Spectacular, in K. Tester (ed.) The Flâneur, London: Routledge, 138-158. The paper was originally published in Polish in 1993; see above.
  • (1994): The Exorcist and The Omen, or Modern and Postmodern Limits of Knowledge, In The Polity Reader in Cultural Theory, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 289-296.
  • (1994): Morality Without Ethics, Theory, Culture & Society, 4: 1-34.
  • (1994): Moralne obowiązki, etyczne zasady [Moral duties, ethical principles], Etyka, 27: 9-28.
  • (1994): A Revolution in the Theory of Revolutions? International Political Science Review, 1: 15-24.
  • (1994): Deceiving the 20th Century, New Statesman & Society, 7: 24-25.
  • (1994): ‘Narrating Modernity’, In J. Burnheim, (ed.) The Social Philosophy of Agnes Heller, Poznań Sudies in the Philosophy of Science and Humanities, 37, Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 97-120.
  • (1994): After the Patronage State: A Model in Search of Class Interests. Bryant, E Mokrzycki, (eds.) The New Great Transformation Change and Continuity in East-Central Europe, London: Routledge, pp. 14-35.
  • (1994) Ponowoczesność, czyli jak współżyć z wieloznacznością [Postmodernity, or how to live with ambiguity]. Odra. 10(395): 27-37.
  • (1994): Ponowoczesność, czyli o niemożliwości awangardy [Postmodernity, or on the Impossibility of the Avant-garde], Teksty drugie, 5/6: 171-179.
  • (1995): Searching for a Centre that Holds. In M. Featherstone, S. Lash, R. Robertson (eds.) Global Modernities. Sage publications Ltd, pp. 140-154.
  • (1995): Making and Unmaking of Strangers, Thesis Eleven, 43: 1-16.
  • (1995): Communitarianism, Freedom, and the Nation-State, Critical Review, 4: 539-553. Polish version: 1996, O komunitaryzmie i wolności, czyli o kwadraturze koła. Sprawy narodowościowe, 2: 9-23]
  • (1995): Age of Extremes, New Statesman & Society, 8: 18-20.
  • (1995): Modernity’s Inner Demons. Tikkun, 4: 40-42.
  • (1995): Dream of Purity, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 86, 49-60.
  • (1995): Wśród nas, NIEZNAJOMYCH – czyli o obcych w (po)nowoczesnym świecie [Among us, the UNKNOWN - the strangers in the (post)modern world], Magazyn sztuki: 2-3: 208-220.
  • (1995) Dylematy moralności ponowoczesnej. Dyskusja nad książką Zygmunta Baumana. ‘Postmodern Ethics’ [Dilemmas of postmodern morality. Discussion of the book by Zygmunt Bauman. Postmodern Ethics] (a contribution to the debate), Studia Socjologiczne 1: 129–164.
  • (1995): Freud, Kafka, Simmel. Próba hermeneutyki socjologicznej [Freud, Kafka, Simmel. An attempt at sociological hermeneutics], In: E. Rewers (ed.), Pojednanie tożsamości z różnicą? [Reconciliation of identity with a difference?], Poznań: Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora, pp. 19-44.
  • (1995): O parweniuszu i pariasie, czyli o bohaterach i ofiarach nowoczesności [Parvenu and Pariah: the Heroes and Victims of Modernity], In: E. Rewers (ed.), Pojednanie tożsamości z różnicą? [Reconciliation of identity with a difference?], Poznań: Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora, pp. 241-254. Published also a chapter in Bauman’s book: Postmodernity and its Discontents, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 71-82.
  • (1995): A jeśli etyki zabraknie… [If ethics is mising…], Kultura współczesna, 1-2: 145-159.
  • (1995): O sposobach bycia razem [On the different ways of being together], In: A. Zeidler-Janiszewska (ed.), Trudna ponowoczesność. Rozmowy z Zygmuntem Baumanem [Diffulct Postmodernity. Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman], vol. I, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora, pp. 13-40.
  • (1995): Moralność we dwoje [The Moral Party of Two], In: A. Zeidler-Janiszewska (ed.), Trudna ponowoczesność. Rozmowy z Zygmuntem Baumanem [Diffulct Postmodernity. Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman], vol. I, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora, pp. 13-40. [A translation of the forth chapter of Bauman’s Postmodern Ethics].
  • (1995): O strategii życia moralnego. Myśli przez Løgstrupa i Lévinasa podpowiedziane [On the strategy of moral life. Thoughts suggested by Løgstrup and Lévinas], In: J. Sójka (ed). Horyzonty ponowoczesności. Rozmowy z Zygmuntem Baumanem [Horizons of postmodernity. Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman], vol. II, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora, pp. 9-22.
  • (1995): Odpowiedzi, wypowiedzi… [Answers, Utterances…], In: J. Sójka (ed). Horyzonty ponowoczesności. Rozmowy z Zygmuntem Baumanem [Horizons of postmodernity. Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman], vol. II, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora, pp. 257-287.
  • (1995): O pożytkach z prawdy. Profesorowi Stefanowi Nowakowi w odpowiedzi [On the benefits of truth. Professor Stefan Nowak in reply], In: J. Sójka (ed). Horyzonty ponowoczesności. Rozmowy z Zygmuntem Baumanem [Horizons of postmodernity. Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman], vol. II, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora, pp. 289-194.
  • (1995): Komentarze po-puszczykowskie, na piśmie, nie w mowie powstałe [Comments after Puszczykowo, in writing, not in speech], In: J. Sójka (ed). Horyzonty ponowoczesności. Rozmowy z Zygmuntem Baumanem [Horizons of postmodernity. Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman], vol. II, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora, pp. 9-22.
  • (1996): From Pilgrim to Tourist–Or a Short Story of Identity, In: S. Hall, P. du Gay, (eds.) Questions of Cultural Identity. Sage publications Ltd, pp. 18-36.
  • (1996): Morality in the Age of Contingency, In P. Heelas, S. Lash, P. Morris, Detraditionalization, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 49-58.
  • (1996): Foreword, In: S. Morawski, The Troubles with Postmodernism, London: Routledge, pp. 7-11.
  • (1996): The Moth Seek Out the Lamp, New Statesman & Society, 125: 21-24.
  • (1996): Assimilation into Exile: The Jew as a Polish Writer, Poetics Today, 4: 569-598 (republished in: S. R. Suleiman (ed.), Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances, Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 321-352).
  • (1996): On Communitarians and Human Freedom or, How to Square the Circle, Theory, Culture & Society, 2: 79-90.
  • (1996): ¿Puede haber otro Holocausto? [Will there be Another Holocaust?]. Revista de Occidente, 176: 112-129.
  • (1996): O ładzie, co niszczy, i chaosie, który tworzy, czyli o polityce przestrzeni miejskiej, Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 4: 3-14 Enlish verion : (1998) Urban Space Wars: On Destructive Order and Creative Chaos, Space and Culture 2(3): 109-123; Also published in: Citizenship Studies, 2: 173-185.
  • (1996): Ponowoczesność, czyli dekonstruowanie nieśmiertelności [Postmodernity, or deconstruction of immortality], In: Czerniak S., Szahaj A. (ed.), Postmodernizm a filozofia. Wybór tekstów [Postmodernity and philosophy. Selected papers], Warszawa: Wydawnictwo IFiS PAN, pp. 143-167.
  • (1996): Ponowoczesna szkoła źycia. [The Postmodern school of life]. Studia Edukacyjne. 2: 7-26. Also published in: Z. Kwieciński (ed). Alternatywy myślenia o/dla edukacji [Alternative ways of thonking on / for education], Warszawa: Instytut Badań Edukacyjnych, pp. 151-169.
  • (1997): Morality Begins at Home; or, Can There be a Levinasian Macro-Ethics? In: J. Harald, A. J. Vetlesen, (eds.) Closeness – An Ethics. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, pp. 218-245.
  • (1997): Some Thoughts on Exile and Thinking in Exile, Acta Sueco-Polonica, 6: 157-160.
  • (1997): The Poor – Unneeded, Unwanted and Forsaken, Stensilserien, Department of Criminology, University of Oslo, 87, 1-13. Published also in: 1999, A. Jasińska-Kania, M. L. Kohn, K. M. Somczyński (eds.): Power and Social Structure: Essays in Honor of Włodzimierz Wesołowski. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 264-274. Polish version: 1998, Zbędni, niechciani, odtrąceni – czyli o biednych w zamożnym świecie, Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 2: 3-18.
  • (1997): Responses: Long Live the Monarchy! New Statesman, 10.
  • (1997): The Haunted House, New Internationalist, 289: 24-26.
  • (1997): Unelectable, Irreplaceable Fun, New Statesman & Society, 126: 32.
  • (1997): The Camps: Eastern, Western, Modern, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 13: 30-40.
  • (1997): The Age of Arrogance, The Age of Humility, 2B Journal, 11-12: 30-34.
  • (1997): Modernity and Clarity: The Story of a Failed Romance, In H. O. Luthel, R.E. Wiedenmann, (eds.) Ambivalenz: Studien zum kulturtheoretischen und empirischen Gehalt einer Kategorie der Erschließung des Unbestimmten. Opladen: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 109-122.
  • (1997): The Work Ethic and the Prospects for the New Poor, Arena Journal, 9: 57-76.
  • (1997): O moralności co się w domu zaczyna i o skalistej drodze do sprawiedliwości [Morality Begins at Home: or the Rocky Road to Jastice], In: H. Perkowska, Myślenie w czasach wieloznaczności. Bauman, Tischner i inni [Thinking in times of ambiguity. Bauman, Tischner and others], Szczecin: Wydawnictwo Naukowe USz, pp. 43-74. Published also as a chapter in: Postmodernity and its Discontents.
  • (1997): Nad granicami anarchizmu interpretacyjnego [Above the borders of interpretative anarchism]. Teksty drugie. 6: 35-49.
  • (1997): O ponowoczesnych pożytkach z seksu. [On postmodern usefulness of sex]. Studia Socjologiczne, 4: 87-105. English version published in 1998, see below.
  • (1997): Glokalizacja, czyli komu globalizacja, a komu lokalizacja. Studia Socjologiczne 3: 53–69. English version published in 1998; see below.
  • (1997): Wspomnienie o Trzecim Zjeździe Socjologicznym [A Reminiscence of the Third Sociological Congress], In: E. Tarkowska (ed.), Z dziejów Polskiego Towarzystwa Socjologicznego: materiały i wspomnienia [From the History of the Polish Sociological Association: Documents and Memories], Vol. 1, Warszawa: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne.
  • (1997): Universities: Old, new and different. In Smith, A. & Webster, F. (eds.) The Postmodern University? Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 17-26.
  • (1998): Identity–Then, Now, What For? Polish Sociological Review, 3: 205-216. Polish version: 1998, Tożsamość – jaka była, jest, i po co?, In: A. Jawłowska (ed), Wokół problemów tożsamości, Wydawnictwo LTW, Warszawa 2001, 8-25.
  • (1998): Sociological Enlightenment–For Whom, About What? Dansk Sociologi, 9 (special issue): 43-54.
  • (1998): What Prospects of Morality in Times of Uncertainty? Theory, Culture & Society, 1: 11-22.
  • (1998): The Holocaust’s Life as a Ghost. Tikkun, 4: 33-38.
  • (1998): On Postmodern Uses of Sex, Theory, Culture & Society, 3-4: 19-33. Originally published in polish in 1997, see above.
  • (1998): On Glocalization: Or Globalization for Some, Localization for Some Others. Thesis Eleven, 54: 37-49. Originally published in Polish in 1997; see above.
  • (1998): Europe of Strangers, Transnational Communities Programme, Oxford: University of Oxford.
  • (1998): What Chances of Morality in Times of Uncertainty? Associations, 2: 161-173.
  • (1998): Postmodern Adventures of Life and Death, In: G. Scamber, P. Higgs, (eds.) Modernity, Medicine and Health: Medical Sociology Towards 2000. London: Routledge, pp. 216-231.
  • (1998): On Art, Death and Postmodernity – And What They Do to Each Other, in M. Hannula (ed.) Stopping the Process: Contemporary View on Art and Exhibition, Helsinki: Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, pp. 21-34. Polish version: 1998, O sztuce, śmierci i demokracji i o tym jak się one do siebie mają. Teksty drugie. 3: 199-216.
  • (1998): Time and Class. Arena Journal, 10: 69-84. Published also as: ‘Time and class – new dimensions of stratification’, Sociologisk rapportserie, 1998, vol. 7. Sociologisk institut, Křbenhavns universitet.
  • (1998): Allosemitism: Premodern, Modern and Postmodern, in B. Cheyette, L. Marcus (eds.) Modernity, Culture and ‘the Jew’. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • (1998): Postmodern Religion? In P. Heelas (ed.) Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 55-78.
  • (1998): O uniwersalnej moralności i moralności uniwersalizmu [On Universal Morality and Moral Universalism], Res Humana, 1(32): 3-6. English version published in 1999; see below.
  • (1998): Globalnie i miejscowo [Globally and Local], Master of Business Administration 1: 4-9.
  • (1999): The Self in a Consumer Society, The Hedgehog Review, 1
  • (1999): Societies of instant gratification in different cultures. Europe and North America, in: M. Junker-Kenny, M. Tomka (eds). Faith in a Society of Instant Gratification (Concilium), 4; 3-9. Polish version: Wiara w świecie natychmiastowej satysfakcji, in: M. Grabowski (eds.), Polska filozofia wobec encykliki Fides et ratio. Toruń 19-21.04.1999 – materiały z konferencji. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, pp. 293-301.
  • (1999): On Universal Morality and Moral Universalism. In: C. Lund (ed.) Development and Rights: Negotiating Justice in Changing Societies. London: Frank Cass, pp. 7-18. Originally published in polish in 1998, see above.
  • (1999): Critique–Privatized and Disarmed, Zeitschrift für Kritische Theorie, 9; 121-131.
  • (1999): The Burning of Popular Fear, New Internationalist, 310: 20-24.
  • (1999): The World Inhospitable to Levinas, Philosophy Today, 2: 151-168.
  • (1999): Time and Space Reunited, Framtider International, 9: 9-13. Also published in: 2000, Time and Society, 2/3: 171-186.
  • (1999): Urban Space Wars: On Destructive Order and Creative Chaos, Citizenship Studies, 2: 173-185.
  • (1999): Modern Adventures of Procrastination, Parallax, 1: 3-6.
  • (1999): Modernity as History of Time, Concept of Transformation, 2: 229-248.
  • (1999): Śmierć i nieśmiertelność w ponowoczesnym świecie [Death and immortality in postmodern world]. In: J. Kozielecki, Humanistyka przełomu wieków [Humanities at the turn of the century] Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Akademickie ‘Żak’, pp. 262-286.
  • (1999): Po co komu teoria zmiany? [Why do we need the theory of change?], In: Kurczewska, Zmiana społeczna: Teorie i doświadczenia polskie [Social change: Theories and experiences from Polish perspective]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo IFiS PAN, pp. 19-38.
  • (1999): Florian Znaniecki, nasz współczesny [Florian Znaniecki, our contemporary] , In: E. Hałas (ed.), Teoria socjologiczna Floriana Znanieckiego a wyzwania XXI wieku [The sociological theory of Florian Znaniecki and the challenges of the 21st century], Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, pp. 97–110.
  • (1999): Nagroda im. Theodora W. Adorno [Theodor W. Adorno Award], Studia Socjologiczne, 2: 16-28.
  • (1999): Nowoczesność i ponowoczesność [Modernity and postmodernity], In: Encyklopedia socjologii [Encyclopedia of Sociology], Vol. II, Oficyna Wydawnicza, Warszawa 1999, pp. 350-355.
  • (2000): Ethics of Individuals, Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1: 83-96.
  • (2000): On Writing: On Writing Sociology, Theory, Culture & Society, 1: 79-89.
  • (2000): From Our Critics: The Deficiencies of Community, The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities, 3: 76-80.
  • (2000): Social Issues of Law and Order. British Journal of Criminology, 2: 205-221.
  • (2000): Am I My Brother’s Keeper? European Journal of Social Work, 1: 5-11.
  • (2000): What it Means to be Excluded, In P. Askonas, A. Steward, (eds.) Social Inclusion: Posibilities and Tensions, New York: St. Martin’s Press, pp. 73-86.
  • (2000): Urban Battlefields of Time/Space Wars, Politologiske studier, 7.
  • (2000): Does Reading Have a Future? 100-Day Dialogue, The Book & The Computer.
  • (2000): As Seen on TV. Ethical Perspectives, 7: 107.
  • (2000): Totalitarianism as a Historical Phenomenon, Times Literary Supplement, 4567: 1095.
  • (2000): Scene and Obscene: Another Hotly Contested Opposition. Third Text, 51: 5-15.
  • (2000): Education For, Under and Despite Postmodernity. In A. Bron, Schemmann (eds.) Language – Mobility, Identity: Contemporary Issues for Adult Education in Europe. Münster: Lit Verlag, pp. 27-46. Polish version: 2007, Edukacja: Wobec, wbrew i na rzecz ponowoczesności, In: M. Dudzikowa, M. Czerepaniak-Walczek (ed). Wychowanie: Pojęcia, Procesy, Konteksty. Gdańsk: Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Pedagogiczne, pp. 139-154. Published also in: 2000, Edukacja według, dla i pomimo ponowoczesności, Teraźniejszość – Człowiek – Edukacja: kwartalnik myśli społeczno-pedagogicznej, 4: 7-21.
  • (2001): Living in the Era of Liquid Modernity. Cambridge Anthropology: A Journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, 2: 1-19.
  • (2001): On Mass, Individuals and Peg Communities, in N. Lee, R. Muro (eds.) The Consumption of Mass. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 102-113.
  • (2001): Excess: An Obituary, Parallax, 1: 85-91.
  • (2001): Foreword, In: B. Engelking, Holocaust and Memory. The Experience of the Holocaust and Its Consequences: An Investigation Based on Personal Narratives (eds. G. S. Paulsson), London: Leicester University Press, pp. vii-ix.
  • (2001): Consuming Life, Journal of Consumer Culture, 1: 9-29. Polish version: 2005, Konsumując życie, In: A. Jawłowska, M. Kempny (ed.), Konsumpcja – istotny wymiar globalizacji kulturowej [Consumption - an important Dimension of cultural globalization], Wydawnictwo IfiS PAN, Warszawa, pp. 17-36.
  • (2001): Wars of the Globalisation Era, European Journal of Social Theory, 1: 11-28.
  • (2001): The Great War of Recognition, Theory, Culture & Society, 2-3: 137-150.
  • (2001): Uses and Disuses of Urban Space, in B. Czarniawska & R. Solli, (eds.) Organizing Metropolitan Space and Discourse. Malmö: Liber, pp. 15-32.
  • (2001): Whatever Happened to Compassion? In: T. Bentley, D. Stedman Jones (eds.) The Moral Universe, London: Demos, pp. 51-57.
  • (2001): The Ethical Challenge of Globalisation, New Perspectives Quarterly, 4: 4-9.
  • (2001): (Un)Happiness of Uncertain Pleasures, Sociologisk Arbejdspapir, 10, 12: 50.
  • (2001): Space in the globalising world, Theoria, 97: 1-22; Republished in: 2002, E. Krausz, G. Tulea (eds.), Starting the Twenty-First Century: Sociological Reflections and Challenges. Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, New Jersey, pp. 3-24.
  • (2001): Quality and inequality, The Guardian, 29 December.
  • (2001): Wieczność w opałach, czyli o wyzwaniach pedagogicznych płynnej nowoczesności [Eternity in trouble, or on the pedagogical challenges of liquid modernity], Terażniejszość, Człowiek, Edukacja: Kwartalnik Myśli Społeczno-Pedagogicznej, 1: 11-32.
  • (2001): W co wierzą niewierzący (a są tacy?).[What do non-believers believe in (and are there any?)]. Życie Duchowe. No. 26.
  • (2001): Imiona cierpienia, imiona wstydu [Names of suffering, names of shame]. Tygodnik Powszechny, 38: 9.
  •  (2001): Books in the Global Dialogue of Cultures. The Book: A World Transformed, pp.16-24.
  • (2002): The 20th Century: The End or the Beginning? Thesis Eleven, 70: 15-25.
  • (2002): In the Lowly Nowherevilles of Liquid Modernity: Comments On and Around Agier, Ethnography, 3: 343-349.
  • (2002): Pierre Bourdieu – or the Dialectics of Vita Contemplative and Vita Activa, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 2: 179-193. Polish version: Na styku vita contemplative i vita active. Przypadek Pierre’a Bourdieu, in: P. Chmielewski, T. Krauze, W. Wesołowski (eds.), Osobowość. Polityka, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, pp. 268-282.
  • (2002): City of Fears, City of Hopes, In: H, Thomsen (ed.) Future Cities: The Copenhagen Lectures. Copenhagen: Fonden Realdania, pp. 59-90.
  • (2002): Living and Dying in the Planetary Frontier-Land. Tikkun, 2: 33-42. Polish version: 2003, Żyjąc (czasami umierając) na tłocznej planecie. Przegląd socjologiczny, 2: 35-51.
  • (2002): The Crisis of the Human Waste Disposal Industry, Tikkun 5: 41-47. Reprinted in: (2006): D. Macedo, P. Gounnari, (eds.) The Globalization of Racism, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, pp. 36-40.
  • (2002): Cultural Variety or Variety of Cultures?, Cultural Studies, 20: 317-329. Also published in: 2002, S. Malesevic, Sinisa. M. Haugaard, (eds.), Making Sense of Collectivity: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalization, London: Pluto Press, pp. 167-180.
  • (2002): Global Solidarity, Tikkun, 1: 12-14.
  • (2002): Violence in the Age of Uncertainty, In: A. Crawford (ed.) Crime and Insecurity: Governance and Safety in Europe. Cullompton: Willan Publishing, pp. 52-74.
  • (2002): The Fate of Humanity in the Post-Trinitarian World, Journal of Human Rights, 3: 283-303.
  • (2002): Reconnassance Wars of the Planetary Frontierland, Theory, Culture & Society, 4: 81-90.
  • (2002): Local Order, Global Chaos, In: C. Giordano, A. Boscoboinok (eds.) Constructing Risk, Threat, Catastrophe: Anthropological Perspectives, Fribourg: University Press Fribourg, pp. 19-28.
  • (2003): Educational Challenges of the Liquid-Modern Era, Diogenes, 1: 15-26.
  • (2003): Utopia with no Topos, History of the Human Sciences, 1: 11-25. Polish version: 2004, M. Jacyno, A. Jawłowska (ed.), Kultura w czasach globalizacji, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo IFiS PAN, 17–31. Published also as a chapter in 2002 in Bauman’s book: Society under Siege.
  • (2003): The great separation mark two or politics in the globalising and individualising society, Soziale Welt. Sonderband. 14: 17-43.
  • (2003): The Project of Humanity, In: P. Sheehan, (ed.) Becoming Human: New Perspectives on the Inhuman Condition. Westport: Praeger, pp. 127-148.
  • (2003): Categorical Murder, or the Legacy of the Twentieth Century and How to Remember it. In: E. Barouh (ed.) History and Memory: Bulgaria – Facing the Holocaust. Sofia: Open Society Foundation, pp. 13-32.
  • (2003): Archipelago of Exceptions, Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona, pp. 23-59.
  • (2003): Globalisation as Ethical Challenge, Polish Sociological Review. 3: 247-258.
  • (2003): Claude Lévi Strauss, In: A. Elliott, Anthony, L. Ray (ed.), Key Contemporary Social Theorists, Oxford: Blackwell Publisher Ltd., pp. 197-203.
  • (2003): From bystander to actor, Journal of Human Rights, 2: 137-151.
  • (2003): Nowe stulecie bezczynnych gapiów [New century of idle onlookers]. Tygodnik Powszechny, 3: 7.
  • (2003): Przygoda zwana Europą [The Adventure known as Europe], Tygodnik Powszechny, 47:7.
  • (2003) O tarapatach tożsamości w ciasnym świecie [On the troubles of identity in a tight world], ER(R)G0 1(6): 9-25. Published also in: Kalaga (ed). Dylematy wielokulturowości [Dilemmas on Multicultiralism], Universitas, Kraków, pp. 13-39.
  • (2003): Dobrodziejstwa i pułapki tożsamości. [Benefits and traps of identity], Horyzonty wychowania 4: 89-102.
  • (2004): Stalin, Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, 1: 3-11.
  • (2004): Culture and Management, Parallax, 2: 63-72.
  • (2004): New Frontiers and Universal Values, Barcelona: Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona.
  • (2004): To Hope Is Human, Tikkun 6: 64-67.
  • (2004): Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno – An Intellectual in Dark Times, In: M. Zuckermann, (ed.) Theodor W. Adorno: Philosoph des beschädigten Lebens. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, pp. 25-45.
  • (2004): Contribution to ‘Epilogue in Eight Essays’. In: A. Halsey, A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 206-208.
  • (2004): Political Body and Body Politic in the Liquid Modern Society of Consumers. il Dubbio / the Doubt, 2: 5-19.
  • (2004): Konsumenci w społeczeństwie konsumentów [Consumers in Consumer Society], In: M. Kempny, K. Kiciński, E. Zakrzewska (ed.), Od kontestacji do konsumpcji. Szkice o przeobrażeniach współczesnej kultury [Sketches on the Metamorhoses of Contemporary Culture], Instytut Stosowanych Nauk Społecznych UW, Warszawa, pp. 85-91.
  • (2004): Pół wieku niepokoju [Half a century of unrest], In: J. Strzelecki, Niepokoje Amerykańskie [American Troubles], Warszawa: Wydawnictwo IFiS PAN, pp. 133-147.
  • (2004) Pięć przewidywań i mnóstwo zastrzeżeń [Five predictions and lots of reservations] In: J. Dukaj, PL +50. Historie przyszłości [PL + 50. Histories of the Future]. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, pp. 505-519.
  • (2004): Karta kredytowa [Credit card], Kultura popularna. 3: 41-43.
  • (2005): Seeking Shelter in Pandora’s Box: Or: Fear, Security and the City. City, 2: 161-168.
  • (2005): Education in Liquid Modernity. The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 27: 303-317.
  • (2005): Cutting the Chains of Global Violence. The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 27: 391-394.
  • (2005): The Liquid-Modern Challenges to Education, in S. Robinson, C. Katulushi (eds.) Values in Higher Education. St. Bridge’s Major, Wales: Aureus/The University of Leeds, pp. 36-50.
  • (2005): Durkheim’s Society Revisited, In: J. C. Alexander, P. Smith (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 360-382.
  • (2005): Who is Seeking Asylum – And from What? Mediactive, 4: 90-107.
  • (2005): Freedom From, In and Through the State: T.H. Marshall's Trinity of Rights Revisited, Theoria, 15: 3-27.
  • (2005): Chasing Elusive Society, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 3-4: 123-141.
  • (2005): Identity for Identity's Sake is a Bit Dodgy…,Soundings, 1: 12-20.
  • (2005): Preface, In: L. Donskis, Loyalty, Dissent, Betrayal: Modern Lithuania and East-Central European Moral Imagination. Amsterdam: Rudopi, 9-12.
  • (2005): Foreword, In B. Diken, C.B. Lausten, The Culture of Exception: Sociology Facing the Camp, Oxon: Routledge, 7-8.
  • (2006): Prywatne zgryzoty na miejskim rynku [Private grievances on the market] In: J. P. Hudzik, W. Woźniak (ed.), Sfera publiczna. Kondycja – przejawy – przemiany [Public sphere. Condition - symptoms - changes] Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, pp. 17-28.
  • (2005): Rzeźbiarze i nożownicy [Sculptors and cutters], Kultura popularna, 2: 49-52.
  • (2005); Raport o kondycji moralnej świata [A Report on the Moral Condition of the World] Tygodnik powszechny, 20: 4, 5.
  • (2005) Myśli parę o przyszłości przygody zwanej Europą.[A few thoughts on the future of an adventure called Europe], In: W. Wesołowski, J. Włodarek (ed.) Kręgi integracji i rodzaje tożsamości: Polska, Europa, Świat [Circles of integration and types of identity. Poland, Europe, World], Warszawa: WN Scholar, pp. 461-468.
  • (2006): Children make you happier… and poorer, International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 1: 5-10.
  • (2006): Ze zwierzętami – razem czy osobno.[With animals – together or apart]. In: J. Strzałka. O psach, kotach i aniołach. 2006. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, pp. 221-238
  • (2006) Marian Kempny, nasz przyjaciel [Marian Kempny, our friend]. Kultura i Społeczeństwo 1-2: 3-5.
  • (2007): Britain after Blair, Thatcherism Consolidated, in G. Hassan (ed.) After Blair: Politics after the New Labour Decade, London: Lawrennce and Wishart, pp. 60-74.
  • (2007): Liquid Arts, Theory, Culture & Society, 1: 117-126.
  • (2007): Has the future a Left? Soundings, 35: 8-15.
  • (2007): Collateral Causalities of Consumerism, Journal of consumer culture, 1: 25-56.
  • (2007): Society enables and disables, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 1: 58-60.
  • (2007): Between Us, the Generations, In J. Larrosa, (ed.) On Generations. On coexistence between generations, Barcelona: Fundació Viure i Conviure, pp. 365-376.
  • (2007): Uncertainty and Other Liquid Modern Fears, In J. Přibáň, (ed.) Liquid Society and its Law, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 17-40.
  • (2007): The Liquid Modern Adventures of the ‘Sovereign Expression of Life’, In: S. Anderson, K. Niekerk, (eds.) Concern for the Other: Perspectives on the Ethics of K. E. Løgstrup, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, pp. 113-138.
  • (2007): (with J. Bauman), Maria Hirszowicz (11 VII 1925 - 3 VII 2007), Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 3: 3-4.
  • (2009) Strangers Are Dangers ... Are They?, In: H. Sainsbury (ed.), Mirosław Bałka: How It Is, London: Tate Publishing, pp. 14–25. Polish version: 2009, Nieznajomi to groźba… Czyżby rzeczywiście?, Teksty drugie, 5: 185-194.
  • (2007): Tożsamośc ze sklepu, tożsamość ze spiżarni [Identity in the store, identity in storage]. In: H. Mamzer (ed.) W poszukiwaniu tożsamości: Humanistyczne rozważania interdyscyplinarne [In search of identity: Humanistic interdisciplinary considerations]. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, pp. 27-32
  • (2007): Karta kredytowa. Rzecz o finansowej niepłynności w epoce płynnej nowoczesności [Credit card. Problem of financial illiquidity in the age of liquid modernity] In: W. Godzic, M. Żakowski, Gadżety popkultury: Społeczne życie przedmiotów [Pop culture gadgets: Social life of objects]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne, pp. 17-34
  • (2007): Jak uczynić planetę gościnną dla Europy? [How to make the planet hospitable to Europe?] In: D. Pietrzyk- Reeves, Tożsamość Starego Kontynentu i Przyszłość Projektu Europejskiego [Identity of the Old Continent and the Future of the European Project]. Urząd Komitetu Integracji Europejskiej, pp. 33-64
  • (2007): Świat nawiedzony [The haunted world], Więź, 8-9: 48-58. Also published in: 2009, P. Czapliński, E. Domańska (ed.) Zagłada. Współczesne problem rozumienia przedstawiania. Poznań: Wydawnictwo ‘Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne’, pp. 15-25.
  • (2008): Jews and other Europeans, old and new, Institute Jewish Policy Research, 1: 121 -133.
  • (2008). Exit Homo Politicus, Enter Homo Consumens, In: F. Trentmann, K. Soper. (eds.) Citizenship and Consumption, Palgrave: Basingstoke, 139-153.
  • (2008): Bauman on Bauman – Pro Domo Sua, In: M. H. Jacobsen, P. Poder (ed.), The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman. Challenges and Critique, Aldershot: Ashgate, 231-240. Polish version: 2018, Pro domo sua. Bauman o Baumanie, Znak, 752: 42-51.
  • (2008): Happiness in a society of individuals, A Journal of Politics and Culture, 38: 19-28.
  • (2008): Seeking in Modern Athens an Answer to the Ancient Jerusalem Question, Theory, Culture & Society, 1: 71-91.
  • (2008): Listening to the past, talking to the past…, In: M. B. Bałka et all, 5x1.6, London: Jap Joplin / White Cube, pp. 77-80.
  • (2008): Culture in a Globalised City, Rizoma, 4.
  • (2009): Freudian Civilization Revisited - or Whatever Happened to the Reality Principle? Journal of Psychological Anthropology, 21: 2-9. Polish version: (2010): Uwagi o Freudowskim pojmowaniu kultury albo co sie stało z zasadą rzeczywistości?, In: Przegląd kulturoznawczy 1: 146-158.
  • (2009): Reply, Journal of Psychological Anthropology, 21: 31-35.
  • (2009): The absence of society, In Contemporary Social Evils, The Policy Press: Univeristy of Bristol, pp. 147-157.
  • (2009): Education in the Liquid-Modern Setting, Power and Education, 2: 157-166.
  • (2009): The Spectre of Barbarism: Then and Now. CNRS Éditions, pp. 40-57.
  • (2009): Utopie dystopie czasów płynnej nowoczesności [Utopias and dystopias in liquid modern times]. Przegląd filozoficzno-literacki. 4: 57-74.
  • (2009): Requiem dla Komunizmu.[Requiem for communism] Zdanie, 3-4: 12-16. Published also in: (2010): Krótki kurs długiej historii komunizmu [A short course on a long history of communism] In: M. Ofierska (ed). Przebyta droga 1989- 2009. Dla Aleksandra Smolara [The Travelled Way. For Aleksander Smolar 1989-2009]. Warszawa: Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego, Fundacja Zeszytów Literackich. 297-308. English version was published in English in 2010 in Thesis Eleven; see below.
  • (2009): Preface, In: S. Obirek, Catholicism as a Cultural Phenomenon in the Time of Globalization. A Polish Perspective. Łódź: Łódź University Press, pp. 5-8.
  • (2010): Perpetuum Mobile, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, 1: 55-63.
  • (2010): Media, Bystanders, Actors, In: G. Ognjenovic, (ed.) Responsibility in Context, London: Springer, pp. 95-102.
  • (2010): Conclusion: The Triple Challenge, Bauman’s Challenge: Sociological issues for the twenty first century, In: M. Davis, K. Tester (eds.) Bauman’s Challenge: Sociological issues for the twenty first century, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 200-205.
  • (2010): Culture: liquid-modern adventures of an idea, In: J.R. Hall, L.G Grindstaff, M-C. Lo, Handbook of cultural sociology, London, New York: Routledge, pp. 326-334.
  • (2010): O związku morganatycznym teorii z literaturą myśli (roztrzepanych) parę [A couple of (scattered) thoughts on the morganatic relation between theory and literature] Teksty Drugie, 1/2: 13-18. The article published also as a chapter in Bauman’s book: 2000, Między chwilą a pięknem. O sztuce w rozpędzonym świecie [Between the moment and beauty. On art in a runaway world] Łódź: Wydawnictwo Officyna, pp. 59-65.
  • (2010): Seeking in modern Athens an answer to the ancient Jerusalem question, Theory, Culture & Society, 1: 71-91.
  • (2010): Getting to the Roots of Radical Politics Today, In: J. Pugh (ed.) What is Radical Politics Today? Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 17-26.
  • (2010): Communism: A Postmortem? Two Decades on, Another Anniversary, Thesis Eleven, 1: 128-140. Originally published in Polish in 2009; see above. A paper was republished as a chapter in 2011 in Bauman’s book Collateral Damages.
  • (2010): Education in the World of Diasporas, Policy Futures in Education, 3-4: 398-407.
  • (2010): Panika wśród pasożytów, czyli komu bije dzwon [Foreword. Panic among the parasites, or for whom the bell tools] In: H. Welzer Wojny klimatyczne. Za co będziemy zabijać w XXI wieku? [Climate Wars: What People Will be Killed For in the 21st Century], Warszawa: Wydawnictwo. Krytyki Politycznej, pp. 5-13.
  • (2010): My, biedni ludzie… [We, the poor people…], Tematy z Szewskiej 1: 15-20. This paper is a version of an essay printed in the programme of Alban Berg’s opera ‘Wozzeck’, staged at the end of 2008 in Munich, Germany by Bawarian National Opera’. It was also published as a chapter in 2011 in Bauman’s book: Collateral Damages.
  • (2010): ‘Privacy, Secrecy, Intimacy, Human Bonds, Utopia – and Other Collateral Casualties of Liquid Modernity’, Modern Privacy: Shifting Boundaries, New Forms, (eds. H. Blatterer, J. Johnson, M. Markus) Basingstoke: Palgrave, 10-22.
  • (2011): Migration and identities in the globalized world, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 4: 425-435.
  • (2011): Selves as the objects of consumption, K. M. Ekström, K. Glans, (eds.) Beyond the Consumption Bubble, Routledge: Oxon, pp. 85-98.
  • (2011): Kultura na rynku [Culture on the Market], Przestrzeń społeczna, 1: 149-164.
  • (2012): Reconstructing Europe, RSA Journal, 158: 24-29.
  • (2012): The Crisis of Leadership in an Era of 'Interregnum': Reflections on Politics in the Light of Václav Havel's Departure, Sociologický Časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 3: 563-567.
  • (2012): Fuels, sparks and fires: On taking to the streets, Thesis Eleven, 1: 11-16.
  • (2012): Profesor Jerzy Szacki [Professor Jerzy Szacki], Przegląd filozoficzno-literacki, 4: 47-49. [A review of prof. Jerzy Szacki’s legacy, written for his honoris causa ceremony at UMCS University, Lublin. 17 June 2009.]
  • (2012-2013): Czy Twitter i Facebook pomagają propagować demokrację i prawa człowieka? Rocznik Naukowy Kujawsko-Pomorskiej Szkoły Wyższej w Bydgoszczy. Transdyscyplinarne Studia o Kulturze (i) Edukacji 7-8: 11-15. This paper was published in English as ‘Do Facebook and Twitter help spread Democracy and Human Rights?’ in Social Science Journal and then reprinted in 2017 in Bauman’s book A Chronicle of Crisis, 2011-16.
  • (2012-2013): On Facebook, intimacy and extimacy, Rocznik Naukowy Kujawsko-Pomorskiej Szkoły Wyższej w Bydgoszczy. Transdyscyplinarne Studia o Kulturze (i) Edukacji 7-8: 17-30 English version was paper was also published in Bauman’s book: This is not a Diary in 2012.
  • (2013): Uneasy Cohabitation of the Established and the Outsiders, In: We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art. Utrecht: BAK, pp. 96-113.
  • (2013): What is Central in Central Europe, Revista Lusofona de Estudos Culturais, 1: 67-82.
  • (2013): ‘The Role of Modernity: What was it – and is it – about?’ (The paper is a part of Scholars’ Forum: ‘The Holocaust: a Colonial Genocide?’), Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, 1: 69-72.
  • (2013): Dividing time, or love’s labour’s lost . . ., Thesis Eleven, 1: 3–6
  • (2013): O pokoleniu ani-ani i albo-albo [On generation neither-nor and either-or], In: Zygmunt Bauman Doktor Honoris Causa Dolnosląskiej Szkoły Wyższej. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Dolnośląskiej Szkoły Wyższej. The paper was republished in: 2017, Forum Oświatowe, 1: 35–47.
  • (2013): Ludzie (w) ruchu świecie przywództwa ad hoc, ER(R)GO. Teoria–Literatura–Kultura 1: 15-19.
  • (2014): The European Experiment, The Hedgehog Review, 1: 18-25.
  • (2014): O zawiłych dziejach pracy spostrzeżeń parę [A Couple of Observations about the Intricate History of Work], Znak, 709: 26-34.
  • (2014): Słowo wstępne [Preface]: In: R. Hilberg, Zagłada Żydów Europejskich [Destruction of the European Jews], Warszawa: Piotr Stefaniuk.
  • (2014): Śmieć [Trash], Znak, 715: 8-12
  • (2015): O miłości i nienawiści… tropami Barbary Skargi [About love and hate... in the footsteps of Barbara Skarga], In: Medytacje Filozoficzne [Philosophical meditations]. Warszawa: Fundacja na Rzecz Myślenia im. Barbary Skargi, Muzeum Łazienki Królewskie, pp. 37-51.
  • (2015):‘A few scattered (my own and borrowed) thoughts on the fate of intimacy, friendship, and love in our liquid modern age’, in Cyril Reade and David Peters Corbett eds, Porous Boundaries.  Art and Essays (in honour of Janet Wolff). Manchester University Press.
  • (2016): From „Official” to „Do it Yourself” Fear, Revue Intarnationale de Philosophie, 3: 413-420.
  • (2016): The Cosmopolitan Planet: In Search of a Cosmopolitan Awareness, In: J. Chen, et al (eds.) Selected Papers from the 14th Rhodes Forum, 23-36.
  • (2016): Liquid modernity’ fifteen years after in, Blackshaw (ed.). The new Bauman Reader. Thinking sociologically in liquid modern Times. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 391-402.
  • (2017): Symptoms in Search of an Object and a Name, In H. Geiselberger, (ed.) The Great Regression, Cambridge: Polity, pp. 13-25.
  • (2017) Wiek nostalgii [The Age of Nostalgia], Odra 6: 8-10 (an excerpt from Zygmunt Bauman’s Retrotopia]
  • (2017): Some of the Foremost Challenges to the Status Quo, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne. Seria Nowa, 2: 31-46. Reprinted in J.J. Wiatr (ed.) New Authoritarianism. Challenges to Democracy in the 21st The Miracle of Reconciliation, Opladen-Berlin-Toronto: Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2019, pp. 37-49.

Book reviews and review essays (in English and Polish):

  • (1955): Evana Durbina teoria "socjalizmu demokratycznego" [Evan Durina's Theory of "Democratic Socialism"]. Review of: E. Durbin, ‘The Politics of Democratic Socialism’. Myśl Filozoficzna, 2: 178-189.
  • (1955): Review of: S. Aaronowitch, ‘Monopoly. A Study of British Monopoly Capitalism’, Myśl Filozoficzna, 3: 184-185.
  • (1955): Review of: A. Hutt, ‘British Trade Unionism. A Short History’, Myśl Filozoficzna, 3: 186.
  • (1955): Review of: H. Peeling, ‘The Origins of the Labour Party’, Myśl Filozoficzna, 5/6: 351.
  • (1955): Zachodnioeuropejska socjaldemokracja w oczach amerykańskiej burżuazji [Western European Social Democracy in the eyes of the American Bourgeoisie], Review of two articles of J. Saposs from ‘Social Research’, Myśl Filozoficzna, 5/6: 354.
  • (1956): Badania społeczne ale jakie? [Social research, what kind of?], Journal review: ‘The British Journal of Sociology’, year 1955. Myśl Filozoficzna, 2: 186-190.
  • (1956): Review of: E. P. Thompson, ‘William Morris – Romantic to Revolutionary’, Myśl Filozoficzna, 2: 192-193.
  • (1956): O ‘czystej myśli’ i ‘czystych metodach’ [On ‘Pure Thought’ and ‘Pure Methods’], review of: R. N. Carew Hunt, ‘The Theory and Practice of Communism, and Marxism, Past and Present’, and J. Plamenatz: ‘German Marxism and Russian Communism’, Myśl Filozoficzna, 2: 233-234.
  • (1956): Socjologia wartościująca czyli przeciw ‘czystej socjologii’ [Values in Sociology or Against „Pure Sociology’], Review of: S. Rose’s article, ‘Sociology and Study of Values’, published in 1956 in British Journal of Sociology, Myśl Filozoficzna, 4: 204-205.
  • (1956): Problemy socjalne krajów gospodarczo zacofanych [Social problems of economically backward countries], Review of: F. J. Deyrup’s article ‘Backward Economies: The Problem of Partial Development’, published in 1955 in Social research, Myśl Filozoficzna, 4: 207-208.
  • (1956): Z metodologicznych zagadnień socjologii [On the methodological issues of sociology], Review of two articles published in 1956 in American Sociological Review: B. Barber, ‘Structural-Functional Analysis: Some Problems and Misunderstandings’, A. Pierce, ‘Empiricism and the Social Sciences’, Myśl Filozoficzna, 4: 222-223.
  • (1956): Z badań nad rozwojem osobowości [On the research of personality development], Review of: M. Spinley, ‘The Deprived and the Privileged’, Myśl Filozoficzna, 5: 228-229.
  • (1956): Przyczynek do przekształceń klasowych krajów zacofanych [A contribution to the class transformation of backward countries] Review of: J. M. van der Kroef’s article ‘The Changing Class Structure in Indonesia’, published in 1956 in American Sociological Review, Myśl Filozoficzna, 5: 230.
  • (1959): Problematyka socjologiczno-polityczna w czasopiśmiennictwie angielskim (1957-1958) [Socio-political Issues in English Journals (1957-1958)], Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 2: 203-210.
  • (1959): Review of: M. Lerner, ‘America as a Civilization: Life and Thought in the United States Today’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 2: 225-226.
  • (1959): Problematyka socjologiczno-polityczna w czasopiśmiennictwie amerykańskim – rok 1958 [Socio-political Issues in American Journals - 1958], Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 3: 201-207.
  • (1959): Review of: J. A. Jacobsen, M. H. Lipman (eds.), ‘Political Science. Terms, Basic Theories, Institutions, Practices’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 3: 221-223.
  • (1959): Review of: F. Neumann, ‘The Democratic and the Authoritarian State. Essays in Political and Legal Theory’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 3: 227-228.
  • (1959): Review of: M. G. Ross, Ch. E. Hendry, ‘New Understanding of leadership. A survey and Application of Research’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 3: 230-231.
  • (1959): Review of F. S. Chapin, ‘Experimental Designs in Sociological Research. Revised Edition’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 3: 235-236.
  • (1959): Review of: P. V. Young, ‘Scientific Social Surveys and Research. An Introduction to the Background, Content, Methods, Principles, and Analysis of Social Sciences’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 3: 236-237.
  • (1960): Wartościowanie w naukach społecznych. [Valuation in Social Sciences], Review of: G. Murdal, ‘Value in Social Theory: A Selection of Essays on Methodology’. Studia Filozoficzne, 5: 172-181.
  • (1960): Socjologiczna wyobraźnia a socjologiczna rzeczywistość. [Sociological imagination and sociological reality], Review of: C. W. Mills, ‘The Sociological Imagination’. Studia Filozoficzne, 6: 173-181.
  • (1960): O wojsku – nie tylko dla wojska [About military – not only for military], Review of: J. Wiatr (Ed.), ‘Armia i społeczeństwo. Wprowadzenie do socjologii wojska’ [‘Army and Society. An Introduction to the sociology of military’], Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 3: 249-253.
  • (1960): Na styku odległych szlaków [At the juncture of the distant routes], Review of: A. E. C. Hare, ‘The First Principles of Industrial Revolution’ and H. A. Clegg, ‘A new Approach to Industrial Democracy’, Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 4: 248-255.
  • (1960): Review of: B. Moore, Jr. Political Power and Social Theory. Six Studies’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 6: 193-194.
  • (1960): Review of: A. Mueller-Deham, ‘Human Relations and Power. Socio-Political Analysis and Synthesis’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 6: 194-195.
  • (1960): Review of: S. M. Lipset, R. Bendix, ‘Social Mobility in Industrial Society’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 6: 195-197.
  • (1960): Review of: W. Stark, ‘The Sociology of Knowledge. An Essay in Aid of a Deeper Understanding of the History of Ideas’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 6: 197-198.
  • (1960): Review of A. L. Morton, G. Tate, ‘Historia Brytyjskiego Ruchu Robotniczego 1770-1920’ [‘The Hostory of the British Labor Movement, 1770-1920’], Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 6: 199-201.
  • (1960): Review of: J. Meynaud, ‘Les groups de pression en France’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 6: 202-203.
  • (1960): Review of: E. Digby Baltzell, ‘Philadelphia Genteman. The Making of a National Upper Class’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 6: 204-205.
  • (1960): Review of: H. Henry, ‘Motivation Research. Its Practice and uses for Advertising, Marketing and Other Business Purposes’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 6: 205-206.
  • (1960): Review of: V. Packard, ‘The Hidden Persuaders’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 6: 207-208.
  • (1961): Review of: J. Szczepański, ‘Wykształcenie a pozycja społeczna inteligencji’ [‘Education and the Social Position of the Intelligentsia’], Studia Socjologiczne, 1961, no. 1.
  • (1961): Ważne wydarzenie w polskiej humanistyce. [An important event in Polish humanities] Review of: J. Szczepański, ‘Socjologia. Rozwój problematyki i metod’ [‘Sociology Development of Problems and Methods’]. Studia Filozoficzne, 3: 199-205.
  • (1961): Worek z wiedzą o Polsce współczesnej [A Bag with Knowledge about Contemporary Poland]; Review of: B. Seidler, ‘Worek z miliardami’ [‘A Bag with Milliards’], Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 2: 170-175.
  • (1961): Dwie socjologie [Two sociologies], Review of: C. W. Mills, ‘Images of Man. the Classic Tradition in Sociological Thinking’, Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 3: 137-141.
  • (1961): Z problematyki socjologiczno-polityczne w czasopiśmiennictwie amerykańskim (rok 1959) [On the Socio-political Issues in American Journals (from 1959)], Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 8: 257-262.
  • (1961): Review of: R. M. Merton, L. Broom, L. S. Cottrell, Jr, ‘Sociology Today, Problems and Prospetcs’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 8: 279-281.
  • (1961): Review of: M. Duverger, ‘Méthodes de la Science Politique’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 8: 281-282.
  • (1961): Review of: J. G. March, A. Simon, ‘Organisations’; M. Haire (ed.), ‘Modern Organization Theory. A Symposium of the Foundation for Research on Human Behavior’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 8: 283-284.
  • (1961): Review of: R. A. Lester, ‘As Union Mature. An Analysis of the Evolution of American Unionism’, Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne, 8: 286-287.
  • (1963): Review of: S. Ossowski: O osobliwościach nauk społecznych [On the peculiarities of social sciences] Studia Socjologiczne, 2: 283-296.
  • (1963): Review of: W. Kula: ‘Teoria ekonomiczna ustroju feudalnego’ [‘Economic theory of the feudal system’], Studia Socjologiczne, 3: 219-229.
  • (1966): Review of: A. Schaff, ‘Marksizm a jednostka ludzka’ [‘Marxism and the human individual’], Studia Socjologiczne, 1:333-336.
  • (1966): Review of: L. Kołakowski, ‘Świadomość religijna i więź kościelna’ [‘Religious Awareness and the Church Bond’] Studia Socjologiczne, 2: 293-299.
  • (1973): Review of: Poggi, ‘Images of Society: Essays on the Sociological Theories of Tocqueville, Marx and Durkheim’, Times Higher Education Supplement, 29.
  • (1974): Review of: Poggi, P. Hollander, ‘Soviet and American Society: A Comparison’, American Political Science Review, 4: 1811-12.
  • (1974): The Individual Dismembered, Review of S. Lukes, ‘Individualism’, The Sociological Review, 1, 157.
  • (1974): Review of: Lane, G. Kolankiewicz, ‘Social Groups in Polish Society’, Slavonic and East European Review, 127: 306-09.
  • (1976): Marx to Parsons, Review of: Habermas, ‘Legitimation Crisis’, New Society, 733: 147-148.
  • (1976): Review of: G. Balandier, ‘Gurvitch’, Sociology, 2: 382-383.
  • (1976): Journal Review: ‘Theory and Society’, Renewal and Critique in Social Theory, 1974-5, Vol, 1-2., Sociology, 3: 525-528.
  • (1977): Review of: E. Leach, ‘Culture and Communication’, Sociology, 3: 570-571.
  • (1978): Review of: D. Lane, ‘The Socialist Industrial State: Towards a Political Sociology of State Socialism”, Sociology, 1: 181-182.
  • (1978): Review of: C. Lévi-Strauss, ‘Structural Anthropology’, Vol. II, Sociology, 1: 188-189.
  • (1979): Review of: Robertson, ‘Meaning and Change: Explorations in the Cultural Sociology of Modern Societies’, The British Journal of Sociology, 3: 376-77.
  • (1979): The Phenomenon of Norbert Elias, Review of: N. Elias, ‘What is Sociology?’, N. Elias, ‘The Civilising Process. The History of Manners’, J. Goudsblom, “Sociology in the Balance. A Critcal Essay’, ‘Human Figurations. Essays for Norbert Elias’, Sociology, 1: 117-125.
  • (1980): Review of: Horn, A. Schwan, T. Weingartner, ‘Sozialismus in Theorie und Praxis: Festschrift für Richard Löwenthal’[Socialism in theory and practice: Commemorative for Richard Löwenthal], Political Studies, 1: 178.
  • (1980): Review of: H. Schmalenbach, ‘On Society and Experience’, Sociology, 2: 338-339.
  • (1980): Review of: F. E. Menuel, F. P. Manuel, ‘Utopian Thought in the Western World’, Sociology, 4: 664-666.
  • (1982): Review of: Sennett, ‘Authority’, Theory, Culture & Society, 2: 128-30.
  • (1982): Review of: Clarke, ‘The Foundations of Structuralism: A Critique of Lévi-Strauss and the Structuralist Movement’, Sociology, 3: 451-53.
  • (1982): Review of: Parkin, ‘Max Weber’, G. Marshall, ‘In Search for the Spirit of Capitalism: An Essay on Max Weber’s Protestant Ethics Thesis’ Times Literary Supplement, 4135: 715.
  • (1982): Review of: Schütz, ‘Making Sense of Reification’, ‘Life Forms and Meaning Structure’, B. Thomason, ‘Constructionist Theory’, Times Literary Supplement, 4155: 1283.
  • (1983): Review of: Keat, ‘The Politics of Social Theory: Habermas, Freud and the Critique of Positivism’, The British Journal of Sociology, 1: 154-56.
  • (1983): Review of: Touraine, Z. Hegedus, F. Dubet & M. Wieviorka, ‘Anti-Nuclear Protest: The Opposition to Nuclear Energy in France’; A. Touraine, F. Dubet, M. Wieviorka & J. Strzelecki, ’Solidarity: Poland: 1980-81’, Sociology, 4: 596-98.
  • (1983): Leave it to the Experts, Review of: Outhwaite, ‘Concept Formation in Social Science’, Times Literary Supplement, 78: 441.
  • (1984): Review of: Heller, F. Feher, G. Markus, ‘Dictatorship Over Needs’, Telos, 60: 173-178.
  • (1984): Review of: A. Béteille, ‘The Idea of Natural Inequality and Other Essays. Sociology, 4: 601.
  • (1984): Review of: R. Wagner, ‘A. Schütz: An intellectual Biography’, Times Literary Supplement, 4235: 621.
  • (1985): Review of: Taras, ‘Ideology in a Socialist State: Poland 1956-1983’, Soviet Studies, 4: 577-578.
  • (1985): One-sided solutions, Review of: James, ‘The Content of Social Explanation’, Times Literary Supplement, 211.
  • (1986): Review of: Timofeev, ‘Symposium: Soviet Peasants’, Telos, 68: 124-127.
  • (1986): Review of: Eyerman, ‘False Consciousness and Ideology in Marxist Theory’, Sociology, 3: 467-8.
  • (1987): The Philosopher in the Age of Noise: A Reading of Richard J. Bernstein's ‘Philosophical Prophiles’, Theory, Culture & Society, 1: 157-65.
  • (1987): Postmodernity in Search of Sociology’, Review of: Hekman, ‘Hermeneutics and the Sociology of Knowledge’, Theory, Culture & Society, 1: 172-176.
  • (1987): Review of: R. Nisbet, ‘The Making of Modern Society’, Contemporary Sociology, 6: 902-903.
  • (1987): ‘The Adventure of Modernity’, review of J. Habermas, P. Dews, ‘Autonomy and Solidarity: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas’, Times Literary Supplement, 4376: 155.
  • (1988): Review of: N. Luhmann, ‘Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy’, American Journal of Sociology, 5: 1240-1243.
  • (1988): Review of: S. Whimster and S. Lash. (eds.) ‘Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity’, The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 6: 76-79.
  • (1988): Review of: J. Habermas, ‘The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity’, Sociology, 3: 473-475.
  • (1988): ‘The second disenchantment’, Review of: J. Baudrillard, ‘La gauche divine’; ‘’Les strategies fatales’ [The divine left’; ‘The fatal strategies’], Theory, Culture & Society, 4, 738-743.
  • (1988): Review of: Hurwic-Nowakowska, ‘A Social Analysis of Postwar Polish Jewry’, Polin, 3: 438-442.
  • (1988): ‘A guide to the perplexed’, Review of: E. Gellner, ‘Culture, Identity and Politics’, Times Literary Supplement, 4422: 4.
  • (1988): ‘Disappearing into the desert’, Review of J. Baudrillard, ‘America’, Times Literary Supplement, 4472: 1391.
  • (1988): Review of: J. Keane, ‘Democracy and Civil Society’, New Statesman, 115: 22-23.
  • (1989): Review of: D. Frisby, ‘Fragments of Modernity: Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin’, The British Journal of Sociology, 4: 701-702.
  • (1989): Review of: G. Dench, ‘Minorities in the Open Society: Prisoners of Ambivalence’, The British Journal of Sociology, 4: 709-712.
  • (1989): Review of: S. Archer, ‘Culture and Agency: The Place of Culture in Society’, History of the Human Sciences, 2: 260-265.
  • (1989): Review of: J. Strzelecki, ‘Kontynuacje’ [‘Continuations’], Times Literary Supplement, 103.
  • (1989): Review of: B. Szacka et al. ‘Polska dziecięca’ [Children’s Poland], Times Literary Supplement, 4521: 1295.
  • (1989): ‘A World Unmade’, Review of: A. Jasińska-Kania, ‘Osobowość, orientacje moralne i postawy polityczne’ [Personality, moral orientations and political attitudes], Rychard, A. Sułek, (ed.) ‘Legitymacia - klasyczne teorie i Polskie doświadczenia’ [Legitimization - classic theories and Polish experiences], Times Literary Supplement, 4521: 1295.
  • (1989): The end was in the beginning, review of J. Jaroslawski, ‘Die marxistische Bewegung und die Polenfrage’ [The Marxist Movement and the Polish Question], Times Literary Supplement, 4525: 1406.
  • (1990): Review of: A. Milner, P. Thomas and C. Worth, (ed.) ‘Postmodern Conditions’, Thesis Eleven, 25: 173-8.
  • (1990): Review of: J. Schatz, ‘The Generation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Communists of Poland’. Acta Sociologica, 2: 175-176.
  • (1990): Review of: D. Kellner, ‘Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond’. Sociology, 4: 697-699
  • (1990): ‘The Twilight of the New Politics’, Review of J. C. Goldfarb, ‘Beyond Glasnost: The Post-Totalitarian Mind’, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, 1-3: 230-232.
  • (1990): Living with indeterminacy, review of D. Harvey, ‘The condition of Postmodernity’, D. Jones, ‘Metropolis’, Times Literary Supplement, 4545: 501.
  • (1990): What the facts won’t warrant, Review of: W. G. Runciman, ‘Confessions of a reluctant theorist: Selected essays of W. G. Runciman’, Times Literary Supplement, 24.05: 28.
  • (1990): Make it impersonal, Review of E. Straub, ‘The Roots of Evil’, Times Literary Supplement, 4553: 722.
  • (1990): Review of: W. Nieciuński and T. Żukowski, ‘Studia nad ładem społecznym’ [Studies on the social order], Times Literary Supplement, 4567: 1095.
  • (1990): Totalitarian perception, Review of: A. Kara-Murza, A. Voskresenskii, ‘Totalitarizm kak istoriecheskii fenomen’, W. Nieciuński, T. Żukowski, ‘Studia and ładem społecznym’, Times Literary Supplement, 18.10: 1095.
  • (1991): Review of: R. Boudon, F. Bourricaud, A Critical Dictionary of Sociology’, The British Journal of Sociology, 2: 295-297.
  • (1991): Review of: A. J. Mayer, ‘Why Did the Heavens not Darken?; ‘The Final Solution’ in History’, Social History, 3: 391-394.
  • (1991): Review of: W. Leiss, ‘Under Technology’s Thumb’, Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1: 107-109.
  • (1991): Review of: S. Mennell, “Norbert Elias: Civilisation and the Human Self-Image’, Sociological Review, 2: 366-369.
  • (1991): Review of: K. H. Wolff, ‘O Loma!” Constituting a Self (1977-84)’, The Sociological Review, 2: 411-412.
  • (1991): How the Defeated Answer Back. Review of J. Scott, ‘Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts’. Times Literary Supplement, 4580: 7.
  • (1991): The Banality of the good, Review of: T. Todorov, ‘Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps’, Times Literary Supplement, 14.05: 13.
  • (1991): What happened and what didn’t. Review of: G. Hawthorn, ‘Plausible Worlds’, Times Literary Supplement, 11.10: 26.
  • (1992): Review of: P. Corrigan, ‘Social Forms/Human Capacities: Essays in Authority and Differences’, Sociological Review, 1: 168-170.
  • (1992): Review of: Wellmer, ‘The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics and Postmodernism’, Sociology, 1: 173-175.
  • (1992): Review of: D. Beetham, ‘The Legitimation of Power’, R. H. O'Kane, ‘The Revolutionary Reign of Terror: The Role of Violence in Political Change’, Sociology, 3: 551-554.
  • (1992): Philosophy as the Mirror of Time, Review of: R. Rorty, “Philosophical Papres’, Malachowski, (ed.), ‘Reading Rorty: Critical Responses to 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature'’, History of the Human Sciences, 3: 57-63.
  • (1992): Review of: Schlesinger, ‘Media, State and Nation: Political Violence and Collective Identities’, Media, Culture & Society, 3: 489-492.
  • (1992): Review of: A. Hall and I. C. Jarvie, (ed.) ‘Transition to Modernity: Essays on Power, Wealth and Belief’, B. Smart, ‘Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies’, S. K. White, “Political Theory and Postmodernism’, Political Studies, 2: 365-366.
  • (1992): The Solution as Problem, Review of U. Beck: ‘Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity', Times Higher Education Supplement, 13.11: 25.
  • (1992): The Lesser Evil, Review of: J. Duinn, ‘Democracy. The Unfinished Journey, 508 BC to AD 1993, D. Zolo, ‘Democracy and Complexity: A Realist Approach’, Times Literary Supplement, 4671: 11.
  • (1992): Competing Cincepts, Review of: D. Lockwood, ‘Solidarity and Schism. ‘The Problem of Disorder’in Durkheimian and Marxist Sociology’, Times Literary Supplement, 29.05: 26.
  • (1993): Philosophy for everyday - thought not for everyone, Review of: G. Rose, ‘The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society’, Economy and Society, 1: 114-122.
  • (1993): Review of: Christie, ‘Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulag, Western Style?’ Sociology, 3: 555-556.
  • (1993): Review of: Giddens, ‘The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies’, Sociological Review, 2: 363-368.
  • (1993): Review of: Elias, ‘The Society of Individuals’, Sociological Review, 3: 585-589.
  • (1993): Review of: B. Smart, ‘Postmodernity: Key Ideas’, Political Studies Association, p. 728.
  • (1993): Review of: Goodwin, ‘Justice by Lottery’, Times Literary Supplement, 4693: 23.
  • (1994): Review of: Douglas, ‘Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory’, The British Journal of Sociology, 1: 143-144.
  • (1994): Review of: C. Isaac, ‘Arendt, Camus and Modern Revolution’, Sociological Review, 1: 317- 318.
  • (1994): Review of: Rose, ‘Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays’, Sociological Review, 3: 572-576.
  • (1994): Review of: Fein, ‘Genocide: A Sociological Perspective’, Sociology, 2: 613-614.
  • (1994): Review of: Martins, (ed.), ‘Knowledge and Passion: Essays in Honour of John Rex’, Sociology, 2: 629-631.
  • (1994): Review of: D. Campbell, M. Dillon, ‘The Political Subject of Violence’, Political Studies Association, p. 760-761.
  • (1994): Sociology’s changing face, Review of: G. Marshall, ‘The Coincide Oxford Dictionary of Sociology’, Times Literary Supplement, 17.06: 30.
  • (1995): Savoir: The cul-de-sac of pouvoir, Review of: P. Wagner, ‘A Sociology of Modernity: Liberty and Discipline’, Times Higher Education Supplement, 1175: 23.
  • (1996): Review of: S. Mestrovic, ‘The Barbarian Temperament: Toward a Postmodern Critical Theory’, Political Studies, 1: 220.
  • (1996): When violence becomes the defence of order; Review of: J. Keate, ‘Reflections of Violence’, Times Literary Supplement, 23.08: 30.
  • (1996): Review of: Dybel, O dialogu i represji [On dialogue and repppresion] Kultura współczesna. 3-4: 152-155.
  • (1997): Review of: Anthony Giddens, ‘In Defence of Sociology. Essays, Interpretations and Rejoinders’, Thesis Eleven, 1: 132-137, Times Literary Supplement, 4927: 32.
  • (1997): No way Back to Bliss; Review of: C. Offe, ‘Modernity and the State: East, West’, Times Literary Supplement, 4895: 4-5.
  • (1998): Review of: P. Beilharz, ‘Imagining the Antipodes — Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith’, Thesis Eleven, 1: 132-136.
  • (1998): Review of: S. Miles, ‘Consumerism as a Way of Life’, Social Forces, 1: 394-395.
  • (1998): Review of: M. Castells, Manuel, ‘The Information Age’ Vol I-III, Political Studies Association, p. 803-804.
  • (1998): Target practice. Review of: R. Jervis, Robert, System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life’, Times Literary Supplement, 4951: 28.
  • (1998): Review of: Wodziński, ‘Światłocienie zła’ [‘The Chiaroscuro of Evil’]. Nowe książki. 2: 14-15.
  • (1999): Let the good times roll. Review of F. Fukuyama, ‘The Greate Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstruction of Social Order’, Guardian, 19.06.
  • (2000): Review of: Ritzer, ‘The McDonaldisation Thesis: Explorations and Extensions’, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 4: 234-235.
  • (2000): Review of: N. Luhmann, ‘Observations of Modernity’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 3: 554.
  • (2000): The man from Waco. Review of: G. Oakes, A. J. Vidich, ‘Collaboration, Reputation, and Ethics in American Academic Life”, Times Literary Supplement, 5075: 66.
  • (2001): Review of: M. Fulbrook, ‘Interpretation of the Two Germanies, 1845-1990’. Sociology, 3: 787-789.
  • (2001): Review of: S. N. Eisenstadt, ‘Fundamentalism, sectarianism, and revolution: the Jacobin dimension of modernity’, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1: 164-165.
  • (2001): Review of: A. Touraine, ‘Can We Live Together? Equality and Difference’, New Political Economy, 3: 427-429.
  • (2001): Review of: H. Kubiak, J. Wiatr, ‘Between Animosity and Utility: Political Parties and their Matrix’, Times Literary Supplement, 5107: 33.
  • (2008): Review of: Offe, ‘Reflections on America: Tocqueville, Weber and Adorno in the United States’, Czech Sociological Review, 6: 1212-1215.

Selected interviews and dialogues (in English and Polish):

  • (1989): by A. Mieszczanek, ‘Home coming’ In: A. Mieszczanek (ed.), Krajobraz po szoku [Scenery after Shock], Warszawa: Przedświt, pp. 160-173.
  • (1992): by T. Cantell and P. P. Pedersen, ‘Modernity, Postmodernity and Ethics: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman’, Telos, 39: 133–144.
  • (1992): by R. Kilminster, I Varcoe, Postmodernity and Exile, In: Z. Bauman, Intimations of Postmodernity, Routledge: London-New York, 205-228.
  • (1995): by B. Frydryczak, ‘Kolekcjonerstwo w perspektywie nowoczesności. Wywiad z Zygmuntem Baumanem’ [‘Collecting in the perspective of modernity. Interview with Zygmunt Bauman’], Magazyn sztuki, 2-3: 269-273.
  • (1995): by A. Chmielewski, ‘Postmodernizm bez złudzeń’ [‘Postmodernity Without Illusions’], Odra, 1: 19-29.
  • (1999): by J. Naliwajko SJ, ‘To, co najważniejsze, nie zostało powiedziane’, [‘What is the most important has not been said yet’], Przegląd Powszechny 1: 33-47.
  • (2000): by A. Zeidler-Janiszewska, R. Kubicki, ‘Wiedzy o tym, co się przeżyło, nie da się uniknąć’ [‘The awareness of what one experienced is unavoidable’], Polonistyka 3: 132- 137.
  • (2000): by S. Obirek, ‘Odczarować odczarowane’ [‘To disenchant the disenchanted’], Życie Duchowe. 24: 112-121.
  • (2001): by P. Beilharz, ‘The Journey Never Ends: Zygmunt Bauman Talks with Peter Beilharz’, in P. Beilharz (ed.) The Bauman Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 334–344.
  • (2001): by R. Dolecki, ‘Globalizacja – proces nieodwracalny’ (‘Globalisation – an irreversible process’], Biuletyn Informacyjny PAN w Lublinie, 6: 53-57.
  • (2002): by U. Bielefeld, ‘Conversation with Janina Bauman and Zygmunt Bauman’, Thesis Eleven, 70: 113-117.
  • (2002): by H. Walzer, ‘On the Rationality of Evil’, Thesis Eleven, 70: 100-112.
  • (2002): by J. Makowski, ‘Rozkosze życia nowoczesnego’ [‘The Pleasures of Modern Life’], In: J. Makowski (ed.), Dziesięć ważnych słów. Rozmowy o dekalogu [Ten important words. Conversations about the Decalogue], Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie.
  • (2003): by A. Franklin, ‘The Tourist Syndrome’, Tourist Studies, 2: 205-217.
  • (2003): by J. Naliwajko SJ, ‘Cztery lata później’ [‘Four years later’] Przegląd Powszechny, 9: 261-284.
  • (2004): by C. Rojek, ‘The Consumerist Syndrome in Contemporary Society: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman’, Journal of Consumer Culture, 3: 291-312.
  • (2004): by N. Gane, ‘Zygmunt Bauman: Liquid Sociality’, In: N..Gane, (ed) The Future of Social Theory. London: Continuum, 17-46.
  • (2005): by J. Żakowski, ‘Wiek kłamstwa’ [‘The Age of Lie’], In: J. Żakowski, Anty TINA. Rozmowy o lepszym świecie, myśleniu i życiu [Anty -TINA. Conversations on better world, thinking and life]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sic! , 15-34.
  • (2005), by L. Galecki, ‘The unwinnable war: an interview with Zygmunt Bauman’, Open Democracy, 1 December.
  • (2005): by M. Starnawski, ‘Wybierając odpowiedzialność, odpowiadając za wybór’ [‘Choosing responsibility, being responsible for the choice’], Teraźniejszość-Człowiek-Edukacja 2: 7-19.
  • (2006): by K. Tester, M. H. Jacobsen, ‘Bauman Before Exile — A Conversation with Zygmunt Bauman’, Polish Sociological Review, 3: 267-274. The interview published also in a book: (2005) K. Tester, M. H. Jacobsen, Bauman Before Postmodernity: Invitations, Conversations and Annotated Bibliography, 1953-1989, Aaalborg: Aalborg University Press, 37-45.
  • (2007): by M. H. Jacobsen, K. Tester, ‘Sociology, Nostalgia, Utopia and Mortality: A Conversation with Zygmunt Bauman’, European Journal of Social Theory 2: 305–325.
  • (2008): by M. Haugaard ‘Liquid modernity and power: A dialogue with Zygmunt Bauman’, Journal of Power, 2: 111–130.
  • (2009): by G. Battiston ‘Anticipating Obama: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman’; Thesis Eleven, 98: 140–145.
  • (2009): by G. Ziewiec, P. Kozłowski,’ Świat niedoskonały’ [‘Imperfect World’], Nowe książki, 6: 4-8.
  • (2009): by T. Kwaśniewski, ‘Bauman: koniec orgii’ [‘Bauman: the End of the Orgy’], Gazeta Wyborcza (Duży Format), 10 February.
  • (2010): by P. Szumlewicz, ‘Lęk, odczarowanie i różnorodność – ateista w ponowoczesnym świecie’ [‘Fear, disenchantment and diversity- an atheist in postmodern world’], In: Niezbędnik ateisty – rozmowy Piotra Szumlewicza [Essentials for Atheist – Piotr Szumlewicz Interviews], Warszawa: Czarna Owca.
  • (2010): by T. Kwaśniewski, ‘Ignoranci i impotenci’ [‘Ignorants and Impotents’], Gazeta Wyborcza (Duży Format), 18 November, s. 2-5.
  • (2011): by S. Dawes, ‘The Role of the Intellectual in Liquid Modernity: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman’, Theory, Culture & Society, 3: 130-148.
  • (2011): by E. Chudziński, A. Komorowski, F. Ratkowski,’ Moje dzieje intelektualne są historią rozczarowań’ [‘My intellectual story is a history of disappointments’], Zdanie, 1-2: 3-14.
  • (2011): by A. Domosławski, ‘Gaszenie pożaru benzyną’ [‘Extinguishing fire with gasoline’], Polityka, 34.
  • (2012): by S. Daves, ‘The Role of the Intellectual in Liquid Modernity: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman’, Theory, Culture & Society, 3: 130-148.
  • (2012): by J. Dąbrowska, ‘Na grzęzawiskach paradoksów’ [‘On swamps of paradoxes’], In. J. Dąbrowska, Spojrzenie wstecz. Rozmowy [Looking Backwards. Conversations]. Wołowiec: Wydawnictwo Czarne.
  • (2013): by M. Wasilewski, ‘Nie miałem nigdy szacunku do sztucznie wytworzonych granic’ [‘I have never had respect for artificially created borders’], Zeszyty Artystyczne, 23: 7-16.
  • (2013): by M. H. Jacobsen, K. Tester, ‘Talking sociology: An interview with Zygmunt Bauman on sociology, celebrity and critique’, Thesis Eleven, 1: 103–113.
  • (2013): by G. Miecugow, ‘Efekt motyla’ [‘The Butterfly Effect’], In: G. Miecugow (ed.), ‘Inny punkt widzenia’ [‘Different Point of View’]. Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza Przybylik.
  • (2014): by M. H. Jacobsen, M. C. Kearl, ‘Liquid immortality – an interview with Zygmunt Bauman’, Mortality, 3: 303–317.
  • (2014): by I. Vanhee, T. Van Imschoot, ‘The good society and the future of art’ In: J. Brouwer, S. Van Tuinen (eds.), Giving and taking: Antidotes to a Culture of Greed, Rotterdam: V2_Publishing, 43-55.
  • (2016): by S. Czapnik, ‘Jak słowo ciałem uczynić’ [‘How to transfer word into flesh’], “Studia krytyczne / Critical Studies”, 2: 8-20.
  • (2017): ‘On the Future of the Moral Subject: A Dialogue between Zygmunt Bauman and Lilie Chouliaraki’, ed. by K.V. Horvat, Anthropological Notebooks, 1, 129-140.
  • (2018): by M. Ćwikła, A. Góral, M. Zawadzki ‘Najciekawsze projekty rodziły się tam, gdzie nie było sztucznych ramek’ [‘The most interesting projects were born where there were no artificial frames’],Zarządzanie w kulturze, 3: 307–319.
  • (2018): with Aleksandra Kania, ‘Zachód chyli się ku upadkowi’, Odra, 1: 10-16. English translation: ‘The West meant to be declining’, Thesis Eleven, 2018, 1, 91-99.