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Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text
of intellectual reflection after Auschwitz, in which Bauman
rejected the idea that the Holocaust represented the polar opposite
of modernity and saw it instead as its dark potentiality. Bringing
together leading scholars from across disciplines, this volume
offers the first set of focused and critical commentaries on this
classic work of social theory, evaluating its ongoing contribution
to scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. Addressing
the core messages of Modernity and the Holocaust that continue to
sound amidst the convulsions of the present, the chapters situate
Bauman’s volume in the social, cultural and academic context of
its genesis, and considers its role in the complex processes of
Holocaust memorialisation. Offering extensions of Bauman’s thesis
to lesser-known and undertheorised events of mass violence, and
also considering the significance of Janina Bauman’s writings in
their own right, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology,
intellectual history, Holocaust and genocide studies, moral
philosophy, memory studies and cultural theory.
Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text of
intellectual reflection after Auschwitz, in which Bauman rejected
the idea that the Holocaust represented the polar opposite of
modernity and saw it instead as its dark potentiality. Bringing
together leading scholars from across disciplines, this volume
offers the first set of focused and critical commentaries on this
classic work of social theory, evaluating its ongoing contribution
to scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. Addressing
the core messages of Modernity and the Holocaust that continue to
sound amidst the convulsions of the present, the chapters situate
Bauman's volume in the social, cultural and academic context of its
genesis, and considers its role in the complex processes of
Holocaust memorialisation. Offering extensions of Bauman's thesis
to lesser-known and undertheorised events of mass violence, and
also considering the significance of Janina Bauman's writings in
their own right, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology,
intellectual history, Holocaust and genocide studies, moral
philosophy, memory studies and cultural theory.
This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical
trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges both the
Eurocentric assumptions which have underpinned many sociological
theorisations of modernity, and the notion that the processes of
modernisation move gradually, if precariously, towards more
peaceable forms of cohabitation within and between societies.
Addressing these themes at critical historical junctures -
precolonial, colonial and postcolonial - the book argues that the
recent experiences of extremely violent social conflict in Burundi
and Rwanda cannot be seen as an 'object apart' from the concerns of
sociologists, as it is commonly presented. Instead, these
experiences are situated within a specific route to and through
modernity, one 'entangled' with Western modernity. A contribution
to an emerging global historical sociology, Entanglements of
Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide will appeal to scholars of
sociology and social theory with interests in postcolonialism,
historical sociology, multiple modernities and genocide.
This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical
trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges both the
Eurocentric assumptions which have underpinned many sociological
theorisations of modernity, and the notion that the processes of
modernisation move gradually, if precariously, towards more
peaceable forms of cohabitation within and between societies.
Addressing these themes at critical historical junctures -
precolonial, colonial and postcolonial - the book argues that the
recent experiences of extremely violent social conflict in Burundi
and Rwanda cannot be seen as an 'object apart' from the concerns of
sociologists, as it is commonly presented. Instead, these
experiences are situated within a specific route to and through
modernity, one 'entangled' with Western modernity. A contribution
to an emerging global historical sociology, Entanglements of
Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide will appeal to scholars of
sociology and social theory with interests in postcolonialism,
historical sociology, multiple modernities and genocide.
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