interview notes from 'Interview identity *
It is commonly said that the "community" (which refer to the identity as an identity that define them) are of two types: (...) community of life and fate, whose members (according to the formula of S. Kracauer) "live together in an indissoluble attachment, and community "welded together only by the different ideas or principles." (...) The question of identity arises only when you come into contact with "communities" in the second category, and only because they are really many ideas that create and hold together. The "community welded together by ideas that you come in contact in our polymorphous cultural world. It is precisely because it rang so many ideas and principles around which to grow "community of believers," who must make comparisons, decide (s) to do this repeatedly, review the choices made on other occasions, trying to reconcile conflicting demands and are often incompatible. ...
* The volume of the same name (Yale University Press, 2003) was edited by his friend Benedetto Vecchi, editor of the cultural pages of the manifesto.
Zygmunt Bauman is emeritus professor of sociology at the universities of Leeds and Warsaw.
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