ZYGMUNT BAUMAN: THE UNDERSTANDING OF AN INFINITE UNIVERSE

As a tribute to the intellectual, moral and political contributions of the works of Zygmunt Bauman, this article (in memoriam) presents a dialectical synthesis of the core concepts that he developed throughout his prolific career (adiaphorization, liquid rationality, liquid love, the marginalization of the poor, the undervaluation of those who are different subsumed into subhuman categories and the urgency of the awareness to act ethically). In the critical exposition, layers of analysis from other thinkers (such as Kant, Freud, Plato, Lacan, Levinas and Marx) are allowed to emerge in order to provide Bauman's transcendent and potentially utopian thinking with greater splendor, amplitude and flexibility.