The Princess of Asturias Foundation

Joint Laureate in 2010, together with Alain Touraine “have created, independently from one another, singularly valuable conceptual instruments for understanding the changing, speeded-up world in which we live”

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Zygmunt Bauman, 2010 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities together with Alain Touraine, has died.

“(…) Zygmunt Bauman, born in Poland but nationalised British, who has lectured at universities in diverse countries, has comprehensively studied in depth the social condition of post-modern man in an unstable world of transitory values. In his decisive analysis of this reality, Bauman has coined the term “liquid modernity”, incisively developed in the work of the same name”, as stated in the Minutes of the Jury.

The Jury was chaired by Manuel Olivencia Ruiz and made up of José Antonio Álvarez Gundín, Adela Cortina Orts, Diego Carcedo, Alejandro Echevarría Busquet, Álex Grijelmo García, José Luis Gutiérrez Suárez, Miguel Ángel Liso Tejada, Ramón López Vilas, Catalina Luca de Tena y García-Conde, Francisco Luzón López, Ana Rosa Migoya Diego, Alberto Oliart Saussol, José Luis Pardos Pérez, José Ramón Pérez Ornia, José Antonio Sánchez Domínguez, Ricardo Senabre Sempere, Enrique de Ybarra e Ybarra and with Juan Luis Iglesias Prada (as acting secretary).

The Awards Ceremony, which took place on 22nd October, was presided over by HM King Felipe VI, then Prince of Asturias. Besides the address by His Majesty, the speeches at the ceremony were given by Zygmunt Bauman, Alain Touraine, Amin Maaolouf, Vicente del Bosque and the president of the Foundation, Matías Rodríguez Inciarte.

The following is a list of the Laureates that year:

2010 Laureates

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