by Zygmunt Bauman · ISBN 9788495363435
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In 'Modernity and the Holocaust,' Zygmunt Bauman explores the relationship between modernity and the Holocaust, arguing that the latter was not an aberration of modernity but a logical consequence of its principles. Bauman examines how bureaucratic rationality, technology, and social engineering, characteristics of modernity, made possible the systematic implementation of genocide. The author analyzes the dehumanization of the victims and the normalization of violence, offering a critical perspective on modern society and its ethical implications.
Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrated to Israel; three years later, he moved to the United Kingdom. He resided in England from 1971, where he studied at the London School of Economics and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later emeritus. Bauman was a social theorist, writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, consumerism in postmodernity, and liquid modernity.
