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Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt. Bauman (1989, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherCornell University Press

ISBN-100801480329

ISBN-139780801480324

eBay Product ID (ePID)395182

Product Key Features

Book TitleModernity and the Holocaust

TopicHolocaust, Judaism / General, Genocide & War Crimes, General

Publication Year1989

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenreReligion, Political Science, Philosophy, History

TypeTextbook

AuthorZygmunt. Bauman

FormatTrade Paperback

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN89-007274

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal940.53/18

SynopsisA new afterword to this edition, "The Duty to Remember -- But What?" tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence on the individual and societal levels. Zygmunt Bauman explores the silences found in debates about the Holocaust, and asks what the historical facts of the Holocaust tell us about the hidden capacities of present-day life. He finds great danger in such phenomena as the seductiveness of martyrdom; going to extremes in the name of safety; the insidious effects of tragic memory; and efficient, "scientific" implementation of the death penalty. Bauman writes, "Once the problem of the guilt of the Holocaust perpetrators has been by and large settled...the one big remaining question is the innocence of all the rest -- not the least the innocence of ourselves"., 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.

LC Classification NumberD804.3.D377 1992