Description
Book SynopsisNew in paperback, this book, is likely to be adopted on many courses covering the Holocaust. A unique but disturbing book - winner of the 1989 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences. The hardback received enormous acclaim. Zygmunt Bauman is one of the world's leading social theorists.
Trade Review'Modernity and the Holocaust is a very fine book. Broad in scope and penetrating in analysis, it is disturbing as its subject matter demands, yet never fails to preserve the crucial element of reflective distance out of which new or more acute knowledge is able to emerge.'
Times Higher Education Supplement 'Such is the concentrated brilliance of this study that it is sure to find an appreciative audience in every field of research which touches on the Holocaust.' Times Literary Supplement
'This is a profound book, brilliant in its insights ... It demands wide readership.' Political Studies
'The book should be widely read by students of the social sciences, since it is, apart from a provocative analysis of explanations of genocide, a critique of sociology, which Bauman claims has neglected the ethical dilemmas posed by the destruction of the Jews.' Sociology
Table of ContentsForeword.
1. Introduction: Sociology after the Holocaust.
2. Modernity, Racism, Extermination - I.
3. Modernity, Racism, Extermination - II.
4. On the Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust.
5. Soliciting Cooperation of the Victims.
6. The Ethics of Obedience (reading Milgram).
7. Towards a Sociological Theory of Morality Rationality and Shame.
Index.
