Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust

Jack Palmer is Research Fellow in the School of Sociology and Social Policy and Deputy Director of the Bauman Institute at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide. Dariusz Brzeziński is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theoretical Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture.

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