Intimacy in Postmodern TimesZygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades. He did major work on the Holocaust, the postmodern, and much else, with up to fifty eight books in English on almost as many topics. In Intimacy in Postmodern Times, Australian sociologist Peter Beilharz, Bauman's collaborator for thirty years, recounts the details of their relationship, simultaneously charting the changes that have occurred in academic life from the