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On Modernity and the Holocaust – inspirations and critique after three decades
On Modernity and the Holocaust – inspirations and critique after three decades

Author(s): Marcin Starnawski
Subject(s): History of Education, Studies in violence and power, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Zygmunt Bauman; Modernity and the Holocaust; antisemitism; Theodor W. Adorno; education after the Holocaust;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the main theses of Zygmunt Bauman’s book Modernity and the Holocaust, the contexts of its writing and its early critical reception in the 1990s. As an introduction to the issue’s theme, it focuses on the proposals for a contemporary interpretation of Bauman’s work put forward by the authors of the articles published in this issue of Studia Litteraria et Historica. In the final section, the author proposes a reading of Modernity and the Holocaust in relation to educational issues raised in the 1960s by Theodor W. Adorno.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 1-17
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English