Modernity and the Holocaust

Modernity and the Holocaust is a very fine book. Broad in scope and penetrating in analysis, it is disturbing as its subject matter demands, yet never fails to preserve the crucial element of reflective distance out of which new or more acute knowledge is able to emerge. Times Higher Education Supplement
Such is the concentrated brilliance of this study that it is sure to find an appreciative audience in every field of research which touches on the Holocaust. Times Literary Supplement

This is a profound book, brilliant in its insights ... It demands wide readership. Political Studies

The book should be widely read by students of the social sciences, since it is, apart from a provocative analysis of explanations of genocide, a critique of sociology, which Bauman claims has neglected the ethical dilemmas posed by the destruction of the Jews. Sociology