In 2018, the Bauman Institute and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH), both based at the University of Leeds (UK), initiated a transdisciplinary programme to assess the legacies of Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017), whose prolific writings we felt to be profoundly relevant to the multiple challenges of the 21st century. In this special issue of Thesis Eleven, we are marking just over three years since the death of Zygmunt Bauman by bringing together some of the contributions to that programme in order to revisit, elaborate, and crucially to extend his intellectual archive. Taking Bauman’s revision of contemporary social realities as a point of departure, each of the participants in this special issue re-examine – critically but also generously – the many questions Bauman asked, tried to answer, and imbued on the way with new and sometimes shocking insights. This paper surveys those contributions by way of introducing the special issue.

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在黑暗时期思考：评估齐格蒙特鲍曼的跨学科遗产

2018 年，位于英国利兹大学的鲍曼研究所和文化分析、理论与历史中心 (CentreCATH) 启动了一项跨学科计划，以评估齐格蒙特鲍曼 (1925-2017) 的遗产，其多产我们认为与 21 世纪的多重挑战密切相关的着作。在第十一期的特刊中，我们将齐格蒙特·鲍曼 (Zygmunt Bauman) 去世后的三年多时间汇集在一起 以鲍曼对当代社会现实的修正为出发点，本期特刊的每一位参与者都重新审视——批判性但也慷慨地——鲍曼提出的许多问题，试图回答，并在途中充满了新的，有时甚至是令人震惊的见解。本文通过介绍特刊的方式调查了这些贡献。