Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Modernity and the Holocaust
    Unavailable
    Modernity and the Holocaust
    Unavailable
    Modernity and the Holocaust
    Ebook440 pages7 hours

    Modernity and the Holocaust

    By Zygmunt Bauman

    4.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust.

    The book examines what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the lessons which the Holocaust has for sociology. Bauman's work demonstrates that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved with the nature of modernity. There is nothing comparable to this work available in the sociological literature.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateMay 28, 2013
    ISBN9780745638096
    Unavailable
    Modernity and the Holocaust

    Read more from Zygmunt Bauman

    Related to Modernity and the Holocaust

    Related ebooks

    Social Science For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Capitalism Is a Very Successful Cancer: The Millions Interviews Eugene Lim

      Jun 26, 2017

      I’d like to describe the chaotic matrix in which we’re living through some other narrative device, some new way that supersedes our dependence on character as empathy avatar. The post Capitalism Is a Very Successful Cancer: The Millions Interviews Eu

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Birth of Terror

      Apr 9, 2019

      The Birth of Terror
      8 min read

    • Article

      Playing The Nazi Card

      Dec 12, 2021

      We live in a hyperbolic world. “This smoothie is the worst!” “I’m literally starving!” “My parents will kill me!” Words have lost much of their impact. But we still want to be understood. So, what do you do when you feel genuinely aggrieved? When som

      2 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Humble Poem Takes On The Mighty Sword

      May 2, 2024

      Here’s an anniversary no one wants to celebrate: The Columbine school shooting — April 20, 1999 — just passed its 25th anniversary. Fifteen dead (including the two shooters), 21 injured. A new era begins . . . Why, why, why bring up such a horrific e

      3 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Humble Poem Takes On The Mighty Sword

      Apr 25, 2024

      Here’s an anniversary no one wants to celebrate: The Columbine school shooting — April 20, 1999 — just passed its 25th anniversary. Fifteen dead (including the two shooters), 21 injured. A new era begins . . . Why, why, why bring up such a horrific e

      3 min read

    • Article

      Tuesdays With Mitch: Ghosts Of Past, Present And Future Issue Ominous Warnings For Jews

      Dec 29, 2022

      Every Sunday at noon, when many are eating brunch or getting ready for a football game, a room full of chairs awaits in the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Maybe a few dozen people show up, sometimes more, sometimes less. The

      3 min read

    • Article

      Red Joan

      May 16, 2019

      Red Joan
      2 min read

    • Article

      Our Problem With The Camps Isn't Semantic; It's Moral

      Jun 21, 2019

      When is it OK to call a concentration camp a concentration camp? If you answered, "When it's a concentration camp," you clearly weren't paying attention to the Mighty Wurlitzer of Beltway social media last week. The reedy first note was an Instagram

      3 min read

    • Article

      Society

      Sep 20, 2023

      Society
      6 min read

    • Article

      Memoirs Of A Microaggressor

      Nov 26, 2020

      TO UNDERSTAND OUr current moment, start with public apologies. Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, surely thought he was on safe ground when he came out in favour of delaying a Philip Guston exhibition because it included depictions of t

      5 min read

    • Article

      Are Critics of Campus PC Just Grumpy Old Men?

      Aug 31, 2015

      Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, authors of the current Atlantic cover story “The Coddling of the American Mind,” were

      4 min read

    • Article

      Building A Fortean Library

      Dec 3, 2020

      It wasn’t just the Beatles, you know. On Merseyside in the 1960s another group of irreverent young men coalesced around an iconoclastic idea, and with rather more intellectual heft than the admittedly slightly better-known, and better-earning, moptop

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Left Abandoned Me

      Oct 12, 2023

      The Left Abandoned Me
      6 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: Death by nationalism?

      Oct 13, 2022

      The game may be almost over. Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies put it this way: “The irresolvable dilemma facing Western leaders is that this is a no-win situation. How can they militarily defeat Russia, when it possesses 6,000 nuclear warheads

      3 min read

    Reviews for Modernity and the Holocaust

    4.5/5

    35 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      "Even so, the Holocaust was not simply a Jewish problem, and not an event in Jewish history alone. The Holocaust was born and executed in our modern rational society, at the high stage of our civilization and at the peak of human cultural achievement, and for this reason it is a problem of that society." (Bauman 2001, p. X)In situating the Holocaust not only within modernity, but as a historical fact of that modernity, one surely has to feel compelled by that past presence of murder and cruelty, which stands in the intermediaries to the rise of post-modern culture in Europe. Bauman takes further steps in assimilating the lessons of the events of the Holocaust in the mainstream of the theory of modernity and of the civilizing process and its effects. By showing, how social rationalization and the development of cold bureaucracies and inhuman administration has led to these somehow unbelievable events, Bauman steps into the path, which was once pursued by Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno. He is not, however, tempted to construe once again the irrational monsters of the Nazi-thugs, but takes his stance in simply knowing that the ones responsible for these cruel deeds were mostly - even if cold-blooded - very normal, and seemingly moral people.Morality is, for Bauman, a pre-social feeling, rather than something which is produced within societal development itself; once considering the effects of modern social engineering, one cannot but assume that it is society itself which represses moral feelings. With the growing distance between the actor in this society and the effects of his actions, which he sometimes doesn't even recognize, morality gets more and more useless and finally vanishes.Bauman's book about the embedment of the Holocaust in modernity is a well reflected plea for the moral issues that nowadays are at stake: humanity and freedom. He finishes his book:"This is by far the most important lesson of the Holocaust which needs to be learned and remembered. If Orwell is right that control of the past allows control of the future, it is imperative, for the sake of that future, that those who control the present are not allowed to manipulate the past in a fashion likely to render the future inhospitable to humanity and uninhabitable." (p. 250)