We all Need Heroes

I was very surprised, but oh so pleased, to see that yesterday's Guardian had a pretty lengthy profile of Zygmunt Bauman. It doesn't matter if you know of Bauman or not, this profile is well worth reading. He is a welcome reminder of the voice of dissent I keep harping on about here. Reading his classic Modernity and the Holocaust alongside Adorno & Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment would go a long way, I think, in refashioning a much-needed interrogation of contemporary Western culture.