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In Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman argued that the Holocaust had been by no means a negation of the civilising process, but was, on the contrary, its consequence. He claimed that the constitutive features of solid modernity, such as bureaucratic culture, the rise of instrumental rationality and the domination of blueprint utopia, were reflected in the genesis and course of the Holocaust...
Nowoczesność i Zagłada (wyd. oryg. Modernity and the Holocaust) ma już trzydzieści lat. Jak należy podchodzić dziś do tej książki, kontrowersji wokół niej, jej historii i jej kontekstu? W niniejszym artykule proponuję trzy kroki, które przeprowadzą nas przez ten labirynt. W kroku pierwszym, przypominam główne twierdzenia, które Zygmunt Bauman stawia w swojej książce z roku 1989. W drugim odnoszę się...
To jest poprawiona wersja wycofanego artykułu o takim samym tytule, który był opublikowany z numerem DOI: https://doi.org/10.11649/slh.2817. W niniejszym artykule ukazuję, że w socjologii Zygmunta Baumana dystopii przypisana jest również ambiwalentnie „aktywna” funkcja. W pismach Baumana ślady „dystopii w działaniu” pojawiają się jako przeciwobraz „utopii w działaniu” socjalizmu, służący „naświetleniu...
The article is devoted to the late Zygmunt Bauman (d. January 2017), a scholar who made an enormous impact on world humanities at the turn of the twentieth century. It briefly presents Bauman’s life and a number of the best known concepts from his works. The author first discusses Bauman’s attitude toward Marxist theory and explains his revision of it. He then introduces the main ideas of Bauman work...
It is this question which occupied Hannah Arendt throughout most of her life, and which will form the crux of this article. I wish to explore whether critical thought holds the potential to rescue us from the crisis of the ‘moral point of no return’, by allowing us to recognise it. Arendt, and later Zygmunt Bauman, call for critical thinking as a way out of evil. Critical thought being something that...
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