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A new afterword to this edition, The Duty to RememberBut What? tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence on the individual and societal levels. Zygmunt Bauman explores the silences found in debates about the Holocaust, and asks what the historical facts of the Holocaust tell us about the hidden capacities of presentday life. He finds great danger in such phenomena as the seductiveness of martyrdom; going to extremes in the name of safety; the insidious effects of tragic memory; and efficient, scientific implementation of the death penalty. Bauman writes, Once the problem of the guilt of the Holocaust perpetrators has been by and large settled . . . the one big remaining question is the innocence of all the restnot the least the innocence of ourselves.Among the conditions that made the mass extermination of the Holocaust possible, according to Bauman, the most decisive factor was modernity itself. Baumans provocative interpretation counters the tendency to reduce the Holocaust to an episode in Jewish history, or to one that cannot be repeated in the West precisely because of the progressive triumph of modern civilization. He demonstrates, rather, that we must understand the events of the Holocaust as deeply rooted in the very nature of modern society and in the central categories of modern social thought.
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I recommend this book to anyone studying modern history. It connects the dots in a way I hadn’t considered before. It’s not an easy read, but it’s impactful and essential for understanding the complexities of modernity.
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Laura Kim
A must-read for serious students
I recommend this book to anyone studying modern history. It connects the dots in a way I hadn’t considered before. It’s not an easy read, but it’s impactful and essential for understanding the complexities of modernity.
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Maximillian Fischer
A mixed bag of ideas
I had mixed feelings about this book. Some parts were brilliant and others felt a bit stretched. It’s clear a lot of research went into it, but I wish it flowed better. Still, it's a conversation starter for sure.
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Maximillian Fischer
A mixed bag of ideas
I had mixed feelings about this book. Some parts were brilliant and others felt a bit stretched. It’s clear a lot of research went into it, but I wish it flowed better. Still, it's a conversation starter for sure.
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Emma Schneider
Powerful insights on a critical topic
Reading "Modernity and the Holocaust" was an eye-opening experience. The author delves deeply into the paradoxes of modern society and how they relate to the Holocaust. I bought it for my history class, and it sparked some intense discussions!
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