Abstract

WALDMAN, Gilda. Living and Thinking from Foreignness. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2017, vol.62, n.230, pp.359-366. ISSN 0185-1918.

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.

Keywords : Zygmunt Bauman; foreignness; Jew; nationality; alienation.

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