It was an attempt that he pursued through the 1970s and 1980s and it eventually played a crucial part in the emergence and development of his interrogation of modernity. It is the aim of this chapter to discuss Bauman's reflections on the nature and the fate of actually existing socialism ...
argues in his Modernity and the Holocaust [1] that the project of modernity, this civilizing process that enabled the very possibility of the Holocaust, is a process of distancing violence from morality in order to devise violence more efficiently: without the interference of ethical considerations....
Introduction Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most adamant critiques of modernity, argues in his Modernity and the Holocaust [1] that the project of modernity, this civilizing process that enabled the very possibility of the Holocaust, is a process of distancing violence from morality in order to ...
Humanism - Renaissance, Enlightenment, Modernity: Shakespeare may be seen as the last major interpreter of the humanistic program. Bacon and John Milton, though formidably adept at humanistic techniques, diverged in their major work from the central curr