In his later years, Zygmunt Bauman was famous as the sociologist of “liquid modernity”. Yet, this book aims to uncover he was much more than that. He was a humanist social theorist, who examined the contemporary intellectual trends (positivism, structuralism, existentialism, hermeneutics and phenomenology), in search for an in-depht understanding of human living in the world. Doing this, he was a dialoguing intellectual of broad aims, engaged with modern moral values: freedom, as the most specific quality of the human being; equality, as a claim for justice; and fraternity, which assumes the moral shape of responsibility for each other.