ABSTRACT
When Zygmunt Bauman arrives in Britain in 1971 he immediately stops writing about actually existing socialism in Poland and starts to write about a humanistic. He presents socialism as an active utopia to a willing and appreciative audience as a solution to Western economic and social stagnation. Bauman produces his most famous book Modernity and the Holocaust; it was in this book where Bauman shifted away from presenting a justification for a humanistic socialist modernity and starts to view all forms of the modernity project as seriously flawed and potentially murderous. Since 2000 Bauman has produced a very high number of books and papers with the metaphorical conception of liquefaction at its centre. His shift from postmodernity to liquid modernity is little more than a theatrical change of scenery. In Intimations of Postmodernity he explains that: The ethical paradox of the postmodern condition is that it restores to agents the fullness of moral choice.
