Modernity and the Holocaust

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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction: Sociology after the Holocaust; The Holocaust as the test of modernity; The meaning of the civilizing process; Social production of moral indifference; Social production of moral invisibility; Moral consequences of the civilizing process; 2. Modernity, Racism, Extermination I; Some peculiarities of Jewish estrangement; Jewish incongruity from Christendom to modernity; Astride the barricades; The prismatic group; Modern dimensions of incongruity; The non-national nation; The modernity of racis. 3. Modernity, Racism, Extermination IIFrom heterophobia to racis; Racism as a form of social engineering; From repellence to extermination; Looking ahea; 4. The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust; The proble; Genocide extraordinary; Peculiarity of modern genocid; Effects of the hierarchical and functional division of labou; Dehumanization of bureaucratic object; The role of bureaucracy in the Holocaus; Bankruptcy of modern safeguard; Conclusion; 5. Soliciting the Co-operation of the Victims; 'Sealing off' the victim; The 'save what you can' gam. Individual rationality in the service of collective destructioRationality of self-preservatio; Conclusio; 6. The Ethics of Obedience (Reading Milgram); Inhumanity as a function of social distanc; Complicity after one's own ac; Technology moralize; Free-floating responsibilit; Pluralism of power and power of conscienc; The social nature of evi; 7. Towards a Sociological Theory of Morality; Society as a factory of moralit; The challenge of the Holocaus; Pre-societal sources of moralit; Social proximity and moral responsibilit; Social suppression of moral responsibilit. Social production of distancFinal remark; 8. Afterthought: Rationality and Shame; Social Manipulation of Morality: The European Amalfi Prize Lecture; The Duty to Remember

But What?: Afterword to the 2000 Edition; Notes