Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust

'Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust is an essential and timely contribution both to contemporary debates and to the understanding of the development of Bauman’s thinking. Now, five years after his death, and in a context where there is growing critical appraisal of his work (as well as recent antisemitic attacks against him in Poland) these essays offer new and fascinating ways to look back at a key moment in Bauman’s intellectual trajectory.' – Janet Wolff, University of Manchester, UK 'Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust is an essential contribution both to contemporary debates on the Holocaust and to the understanding of Bauman’s thinking.' – Anca Bălan, Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări 'The book is not an uncritical celebration of Bauman as a major European social thinker or an uncritical celebration of Modernity and the Holocaust as a masterpiece and his crowning achievement. The chapters in the book give the reader detailed, informed and often critical evaluation of Bauman’s work on the Holocaust including regarding the motivation of perpetrators and victims, the role of the Judenräte and the Sonderkommandos and their ‘co-operation’, their agency, proximity and face to face cruelty particularly against women.' – Shaun Best, Sociology 'With a new potentially genocidal war at the centre of Europe, Zygmunt Bauman’s warnings in Modernity and the Holocaust that this could happen again are chillingly borne out.' – William Outhwaite, Studia Litteraria et Historica 'A useful measure of the state of affairs with reference to Modernity and the Holocaust today is offered by Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzeziński’s new volume. (…) It is a□volume that will become a standard reference in itself.' – Peter Beilharz, Studia Litteraria et Historica