Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions

ISBN-13: 9780367637545 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 250 str.

Palmer, Jack

Opis

Bringing together leading scholars from across disciplines, this volume offers the first set of focused and critical commentaries on Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust, evaluating its ongoing contribution to scholarship in the social sciences and humanities.

Spis treści

Editors' introduction: through the window again: revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust  PART 1: Sociology after Modernity and the Holocaust  1. Modernity or decivilization? Reflections on Modernity and the Holocaust today  2. The sociology of modernity, the ethnography of the Holocaust: what Zygmunt Bauman knew  PART 2: Rationality, obedience, agency  3. From understanding victims to victims’ understanding: rationality, shame and other emotions in Modernity and the Holocaust  4. Warsaw Jews in the face of the Holocaust: ‘trajectory’ as the key concept in understanding victims’ behaviour  5. Visual representations of modernity in documents from the Łódź Ghetto  PART 3: Extensions and reevaluations  6. Reassessing Modernity and the Holocaust in thelLight of genocide in Bosnia  7. The Rwandan genocide and the multiplicity of modernity  PART 4: ‘That world that was not his’ – on Janina Bauman  8. Janina Bauman: To remain human in inhuman conditions  9. Janina and Zygmunt Bauman: a case study of inspiring collaboration  10. Reading Modernity and the Holocaust with and against Winter in the Morning  PART 5: The legacies of Modernity and the Holocaust  11. Bauman, the Frankfurt School, and the tradition of enlightened catastrophism  12. Modernity and the Holocaust and the concentrationary universe  Off-the-scene: an afterword