We congratulate our author Zygmunt Bauman,
who is the co-recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award 2010

Zygmunt Bauman and Alain Touraine 2010
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities

From the minutes of the jury
»Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, born in Poland but nationalised British, who has lectured at universities in diverse countries, has comprehensively studied in depth the social condition of post-modern man in an unstable world of transitory values. In his decisive analysis of this reality, Bauman has coined the term ›liquid modernity‹, incisively developed in the work of the same name. These two representatives [Bauman and Touraine] of the most brilliant intellectual tradition of European thought have created, independently from one another, singularly valuable conceptual instruments for understanding the changing, speeded-up world in which we live.«