Modernity and the Holocaust

Zygmunt Bauman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

1989
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-0685-9 (ISBN)

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Attempting to provide a sociological explanation of the Holocaust, the main theme of this work is the demonstration that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved with the nature of modernity - neither a single event nor a simple outpouring of barbarism.

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.

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw. He is the author of many works including Legislators and Interpreters (Polity Press) and Modernity and Ambivalence (Polity Press). He was also awarded the Theodor W. Adorno Prize in 1998.

Sociology after the Holocaust; modernity, racism, extermination - 1 - II; on the uniqueness and normality of the Holocaust; soliciting cooperation of the victims; the ethics of obedience (reading Milgram); towards sociological theory of morality; rationality and shame (an afterthought).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.9.1989
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7456-0685-7 / 0745606857
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-0685-9 / 9780745606859
Zustand	Neuware