 Thinking about adult education with Zygmunt Bauman 
This article deals with the question of philosophical foundations of adult education, based on theses of the late modern critical thinker Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017). The text starts with an encompassing and synthetic look at Bauman’s intellectual work (1). Then it isolates more specifically which part of that work helps us to measure the centrality of lifelong education as a major challenge of what the author calls a liquid life (3). The focus is then tightened on what, in Baumanian thought, allows us to point to a polymorphous type of adult education, allowing contemporary individuals to learn navigating and to learn while navigating in a problematic world (3). A concluding section summarizes Bauman's most decisive contributions to the problematic framework of this paper, and outlines what a substantive discussion of Bauman’s diagnosis of the hypermodern world, and the philosophy of education that it requires, might look like (4).