Polish-Ukrainian Studies

The Human on the Road. Reading Zygmunt Bauman

2020, 7, Volume 7

Iuliia Lashchuk

0000-0001-8325-1654

University of Warsaw

DOI

10.32612/uw.23535644.2020.pp.233-250

Publication date

23.09.2020

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open access

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CC BY 3.0 PL

Field

Humanities

Discipline

literary studies, culture and religion studies, arts studies, history, philosophy

Language of publication

Polish, Ukrainian, English

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Abstract

The notions of the road and home, as well as home-coming, home-leaving, homelessness, and homeliness, have taken its essential place in philosophical research. Based on the mythological stories about Ulysses, Theseus, or Heracles, this metaphor is used to name the process of constant movement as a form of human existence. Zygmunt Bauman, whose life was also a continuous movement, both physical and mental, uses the metaphor of movement while describing the moral situation of today’s society. This text aims to analyse the models of human existence proposed by Bauman, to discuss the differences and similarities between them, and to put them into a broader context while discussing Otherness, contemporary ethics, and exile. The article also explores the possibilities of existence and applicability of the figures proposed by Zygmunt Bauman in the contemporary world.

Keywords:

movement,road,home,tourist,pilgrim,vagabond

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