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Modernidad y holocausto me encantó, desde el estilo de escritura hasta los detalles académicos, que no entran en el ámbito de lo especializado o intelectual. Alone, antisemitism offers no explanation of the Holocaust." It seems that, during the first part of the 20th century, had one asked "which European nation is most likely to mount an extermination campaign against Jews," the informed bystander would have thought of France, or a number of others, before Germany. Even during Hitler's regime, the Third Reich's standard-bearers were disappointed in the low level of zeal among German citizens for their anti-Jewish projects. Bauman does not shrink from calling this an anti-Jewish, anti-semitic crime. But he makes clear that anti-semitism was a necessary, but not sufficient, cause: Kultura i społeczeństwo. Preliminaria [Culture and Society, Preliminaries]. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. Hell, Julia (November 2010). "Modernity and the Holocaust, or, Listening to Eurydice". Theory, Culture & Society. 27 (6): 125–154. doi: 10.1177/0263276410382026. ISSN 0263-2764. S2CID 145451398. a b c Arte, ¿líquido?. Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925–2017., Ochoa de Michelena, Francisco. Madrid: Sequitur. 2007. ISBN 978-84-95363-36-7. OCLC 434421494. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link)

That "something more" is - scarily enough - our modern society, with its obsession with rationality. Couple rationality with bureaucracy and you get the Nazi machine working at full speed. The more removed and distant from the object of their job, the easiest became for those involved in the Holocaust to work at organizing "transport" and improving "techniques" to eradicate the Jew issue. Considered a problem to be solved to improve society, the Jews were removed from sight and treated just as clogs in an otherwise perfect machine.

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From understanding victims to victims’ understanding: rationality, shame and other emotions in Modernity and the Holocaust Sociedade, Linguagem e Modernidade Líquida. Interview By Leo Peruzzo; in Journal Diálogo Educacional, n. 6, vol. 47. He bravely and convincingly leaves Zionist revisionists such as Daniel Goldhagen and entire disciplines of academia (sociology, psychology) in the dust, and condemns them for the reluctance, deliberate or otherwise, to confront the Holocaust as the ultimate example of modernity's strength and the dominance of the modern state. Following the logical consequences of these debates, Stone examines race science and its impact on the Holocaust. Although it fully benefitted from the ‘respectability’ cast by academic race science onto the mystical theories about the Jews, the Nazi regime started to distance itself from it, as its empirical findings, classifications and distinctions – such as that between ‘race’ and ‘ Volk’ – threatened to undermine the Nazi racial-mystical propaganda. This chapter seeks to relate historical changes in public responses to the Holocaust and understandings of antisemitism, especially on the left, to the historically changing configurations of capitalist modernity since 1945. Thinking about the two together can be clarifying: public responses to the Holocaust have tended to be structured by an opposition between abstract modes of universalism and concrete particularism – an opposition that also is constitutive of modern antisemitism. These responses have shifted with and are related to the changing configurations of capitalist modernity from the statist Fordist–Keynesian configuration of the 1950s and 1960s to a subsequent neoliberal one. Consideration of these large-scale configurations can illuminate the historical character of those responses; at the same time examination of those responses can shed light on these larger historical configurations. This problem complex can be fruitfully approached on the basis of a critical theory of capital, on the one hand, and one of antisemitism, on the other.

The six chapters of the book, ‘”The final solution”: a German or European project?’ (1); ‘The decision-making process in context’ (2); ‘The Holocaust: child of modernity?’ (3); ‘Race science: the basis of the Nazi world view?’(4); ‘Genocide, the Holocaust, and the history of colonialism’ (5); and ‘The Holocaust as an expression of Nazi culture’ (6) converge to a conclusion (‘Into the abyss’) revolving around the idea that, ultimately, efforts to understand the Holocaust will entail the confirmation, constantly deepened and explicated, of its definition given by Hannah Arendt as early as 1946: that of ‘an organized attempt to eradicate the concept of the human being’ (p. 287). Notes The Nazi regime encouraged and supported race science and constantly based its legitimacy on it. Yet, Germany was not a première or an isolated case of cohabitation between fascism and race science. It is not a secret, writes Stone somewhere else (2), that in the two decades that preceded the Holocaust, calling oneself a fascist was far from inviting the stigma this notion bears (or should bear) today; fascism appeared convincing especially to large numbers of intellectuals who were easily captivated by its verdicts and message. 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 Although it was a ‘purifying’ programme devised by the Nazis, the ‘Holocaust’ is presented by Stone as a generic term that circumscribes local ‘versions’ of persecution directed against the Jews. He analyses the Nazi (especially SS) vision of Europe’s demographic future via the terms of a multi-layered ‘pan-European racial community’ with the Germans and their racial allies at the top and the Slavs, turned into slaves, at the bottom. This picture does not include any Jewish element, which implied, ultimately, their disappearance (pp. 62–3). University of Leeds. There he intermittently also served as head of the department. After his appointment, he published almost exclusively in English, his third language, and his reputation grew.From the late 1990s, Bauman exerted a considerable influence on the anti- or alter-globalisation movement. [12] How does Modernity reflects its responsibility for disabled people as victims of the NS-Mass Murder? Relevance for the participation of disabled people in society today’ – Prof Marianne Hirschberg (University of Applied Sciences, Bremen) Zygmunt Bauman przepisuje z Wikipedii albo wielka nauka i małe machlojki". Kompromitacje. UK. April 2014 . Retrieved 13 November 2015– via blogspot. Ali Rattansi, "Bauman and Contemporary Sociology: A Critical Analysis", Manchester: Manchester University Press (in press, to be published Spring 2017).

Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Poul Poder (eds.), The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman: Challenges and Critique. London: Ashgate; ISBN 0-7546-7060-0. Towards a Critical Sociology: An Essay on Common-Sense and Emancipation. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-7100-8306-8 Zarys marksistowskiej teorii spoleczeństwa [ An Outline of the Marxist Theory of Society]. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.Ciało i przemoc w obliczu ponowoczesności [Body and Violence in the Face of Postmodernity]. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika. ISBN 83-231-0654-1 As a conclusion, the author warns us that, instead of increasing our optimism and comfort (entailed by deepening the knowledge of human condition), reflection on the Holocaust should ‘chill us to the bone’ as we increasingly realize that the resources employed for the ‘final solution’ are similar to those so familiar to us today – ‘censuses and the categorization of people, technology, medicalization, “biopower”’ – and that our ‘rational’ lives are in fact impregnated with ‘magical’ thinking which ‘under the right circumstances can be put to terrible use: fear of immigrants and disease, hygiene fetishism, body-culture obsession’ (p. 287). Moishe Postone reviewed the book for the American Journal of Sociology in 1992. He called the book "important and thought-provoking", although he also argued that "several aspects of [Bauman's] book are problematic" or "puzzling". He concluded that despite some issues, the book "represents an important contribution to contemporary sociological thought". [1] As well as considering its enduring relevance for the discipline of sociology, the event will also incorporate reflections on the book’s significant transdisciplinary appeal and will provide a space for critical dialogical extensions of the work to theoretical traditions and historical trajectories outside of its scope.

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