Living and Thinking from Foreignness
The experience of foreignness was a constituent part of Zygmunt Bauman’s life, deeply inscribed in the crossroads, disasters, and shocks of the 20th century. Self-defined as a “stranger from head to toe and to the marrow,” his personal experience as a foreigner -defined less by the passport than by...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/59355 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmcpys/article/view/59355 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Zygmunt Bauman foreignness Jew nationality alienation. extranjería judío nacionalidad desarraigo. |
| Sumario: | The experience of foreignness was a constituent part of Zygmunt Bauman’s life, deeply inscribed in the crossroads, disasters, and shocks of the 20th century. Self-defined as a “stranger from head to toe and to the marrow,” his personal experience as a foreigner -defined less by the passport than by the precarious status and lack of belonging of every stranger- was interwoven with an exile intellectual view on the social world, in which uncertainty was combined with freedom of thought. Thus, from a position that assumes foreignness as a “being on the edge,” “out from,” this condition became for Bauman in a privileged epistemological viewpoint. |
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