{"id":14023,"date":"2023-04-13T20:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T20:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/do-you-share-zygmunt-baumans-view-that-the-holocaust-must-be-understood-as-a-creature-of-modernity-explain-your-answer\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:27:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T20:27:02","slug":"do-you-share-zygmunt-baumans-view-that-the-holocaust-must-be-understood-as-a-creature-of-modernity-explain-your-answer","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/do-you-share-zygmunt-baumans-view-that-the-holocaust-must-be-understood-as-a-creature-of-modernity-explain-your-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you share Zygmunt Bauman\u2019s view that the Holocaust must be understood as a \u201ccreature\u201d of modernity? Explain your answer."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The module of this essay is regarding to modernity and different theoriest&#8217;s critique on modernity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>There is a vast literature on the Holocaust. Zygmunt Bauman\u2019s argument is a specifically sociological (rather than historical or psychological) one and you will need to read his book thoroughly and carefully. and yes, &nbsp;Debates as to the uniqueness (or otherwise) of the Holocaust and the willingness (or otherwise) of its perpetrators are relevant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>But, be careful. Your focus should be on the relationship between the Holocaust and modernity. Do not get side-tracked into, for example, the ins-and-outs of the Goldhagen debate!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>These are readings to refer to:<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Bauman, r(1989): Modernity and the Holocaust Polity Press, Cambridge. Ch 4 pp. 83-116.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Further Reading:<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Bauman, Zygmunt (1989): Modernity and the Holocaust Polity Press, Cambridge.<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Arendt, Hannah (1994): Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the Banality of Evil Penguin, Harmondsworth.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Smith, Dennis (1999): Zygmunt Bauman: Prophet of Postmodernity Polity Press, Cambridge esp Part 2 chs 8 and 9.<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Fine , Robert and Turner, Charles (2000): Social Theory after the Holocaust Liverpool UP, Liverpool. Esp ch 1 pp. 7-18<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Bergen, Bernard (1998): The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and the \u2018Final Solution\u2019 Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Gigliotti, Simone and Lang, Berel eds (2005): The Holocaust: A Reader Blackwell\u2019s Oxford esp. ch 25 by Mark Levene<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Berenbaum, Michael and Peck, Abraham eds (1998): The Holocaust and History UP of Indiana, Bloomington IN esp Part 4 ch 15 by Hans Mommsen and Part 5 \u2018Ordinary Men\u2019<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Rosenbaum ed (1998) Is the Holocaust Unique? Westview Press, Boulder CO.<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Goldhagen, Daniel (1996): Hitler\u2019s Willing Executioners Abacsus, London<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Shandley, Robert (1998): Unwilling Germans? The Goldhagen Debate. UP of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The module of this essay is regarding to modernity and different theoriest&#8217;s critique on modernity. There is a vast literature on the Holocaust. Zygmunt Bauman\u2019s argument is a specifically sociological (rather than historical or psychological) one and you will need to read his book thoroughly and carefully. and yes, &nbsp;Debates as to the uniqueness (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[681],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/14023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/14023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=14023"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=14023"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=14023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}