Postmodernity and its discontents zygmunt bauman biography

Zygmunt bauman modernity

Zygmunt Bauman () was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw.

Zygmunt bauman liquid modernity

This book builds imaginatively upon Bauman's earlier contributions to social theory.

His name is often mentioned as a principal creator of the concept of "post-modernity" and "liquid modernity".

Zygmunt bauman liquid modernity.

In Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman contends that the Holocaust should not simply be understood as an accident along the road to modernity. Rather, Bauman argues that modernity provided the “necessary conditions” (Bauman, 13) for its undertaking.

As Bauman puts it, the Holocaust was “a legitimate resident in the house of modernity” (Bauman, 17). To support this contention, Bauman suggests that the principles of rationality and efficiency which so uniquely characterize the modern era may have had, in the case of the Holocaust, some unintended consequences: “at no point of its long and tortuous execution did the Holocaust come into conflict with the principles of rationality.

Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-born sociologist who examined broad changes in the nature of contemporary society and their effects on communities.

The ‘Final Solution’ did not clash at any stage with the rational pursuit of efficient, optimal goal-implementation” (Bauman, 17). Indeed, for Bauman, it wasn’t so much that modernity caused the Holocaust, but rather that it failed to prevent it.

While its execution may have been “long and tortuous,”