Liquid Modernity
The catalogue includes 7 thinkers in Liquid Modernity.
How these pages are made
Each school page lists the thinkers in our catalogue who belong to this tradition (primary school or recorded affiliation). Dates, works and bios come from the same catalogue as the app. We do not write original essays about the school.
Thinkers in this tradition
- Zygmunt Bauman1925 – 2017
Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) was a Polish-British sociologist who coined the concept of ‘liquid modernity’ to describe the contemporary condition in which all fixed structures — class, career, identity, relationships —…
- Haruki Murakamib. 1949
Haruki Murakami (born 1949) is a Japanese novelist, translator, and short-story writer whose fiction blends everyday realism with surreal or dreamlike episodes, Western popular culture, jazz, and themes of solitude,…
- José Saramago1922 – 2010
José Saramago (1922–2010) was a Portuguese novelist who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His parables — Blindness, The Stone Raft, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Death with Interruptions — strip the social…
- Jorge Luis Borges1899 – 1986
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine writer of stories, essays, and poetry whose miniature fictions changed what literature could be. The Library of Babel, The Garden of Forking Paths, Funes the Memorious,…
- Antonio Gramsci1891 – 1937
Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) was an Italian communist intellectual whom Mussolini imprisoned with the words "we must stop this brain from working for twenty years." From his cell he filled thirty-three Prison Notebooks…
- Eduardo Lourenço1923 – 2020
Eduardo Lourenço (1923–2020) was the most important Portuguese essayist of the second half of the twentieth century, a thinker who turned the question "what is Portugal?" into a meditation on saudade, peripheral…
- Eduardo Prado Coelho1944 – 2007
Eduardo Prado Coelho (1944–2007) was a Portuguese essayist, literary and film critic, and weekly columnist whose essays in Público were the public conversation of the post-revolutionary republic for two decades. Trained…