The book is a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original modern thinkers. Using the metaphor of “fluid modernity,” the author captures the transition from a dense, structured world, burdened with a whole network of social conditions and obligations, to a plastic, fluid world, free from fences, barriers, and borders. This transition, he argues, entailed profound changes in all spheres of human life. This new state is difficult to imagine in terms of “information society”, “network society”, “globalization”, “postmodernity”. What is required is a rethinking of the perspectives and cognitive boundaries used to describe people's individual experiences and their shared histories. Fluid Modernity summarizes the analysis carried out in Bauman's two previous books, Globalization: Consequences for People and In Search of Politics. Recognized version in fb2 format: