Reality as fluid

Bauman has said that reading Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks (1971), ‘was the major influence of my life’. Gramsci showed that it is possible to analyse and understand ‘reality as something flexible and fluid’, as a sphere of action and not just organization (Bauman, 1992a: 206). What was the context in which this influence was first felt?

Paths in Zygmunt Bauman's Social Thought