Modernity and the Holocaust

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw. He is the author of many works including Legislators and Interpreters (Polity Press) and Modernity and Ambivalence (Polity Press). He was also awarded the Theodor W. Adorno Prize in 1998.

• Sociology after the Holocaust; modernity, racism, extermination - 1 - II; on the uniqueness and normality of the Holocaust; soliciting cooperation of the victims; the ethics of obedience (reading Milgram); towards sociological theory of morality; rationality and shame (an afterthought).