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Modernity and the Holocaust (Paperback)
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A 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."Among the
conditions that made the mass extermination of the Holocaust
possible, according to Bauman, the most decisive factor was
modernity itself. Bauman's provocative interpretation counters the
tendency to reduce the Holocaust to an episode in Jewish history,
or to one that cannot be repeated in the West precisely because of
the progressive triumph of modern civilization. He demonstrates,
rather, that we must understand the events of the Holocaust as
deeply rooted in the very nature of modern society and in the
central categories of modern social thought."
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