9 articles in this issue
Marcin Starnawski
Katarzyna Chmielewska
Two Schools of Thought on the Holocaust: Snyder v BaumanThe article describes two approaches to the Holocaust, identified with the names of Zygmunt Bauman and Timothy Snyder. In this dyad, Bauman stands for the culturalist, sociological approach focused o... see more
Kamil Kijek
Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust and the Unexplored Research Perspectives in Studies about the Holocaust in Polish LandsBy reading Zygmunt Bauman’s famous study critically, this text attempts to show how both the brilliant analyses, obser... see more
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
The Unannihilable – Zygmunt Bauman as Analyst and Ambassador of AmbivalenceIn Zygmunt Bauman’s work, ambivalence was a topic that recurred explicitly several times in his analyses of modernity and later liquid modernity. This was particularly evident... see more
Dariusz Brzezinski
Liquid Modernity and the HolocaustIn 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 s... see more
Jack Palmer
Barbarism – The Active DystopiaIn this article, I argue that dystopia also has an ambivalently “active” function in Bauman’s sociology. Across his work, as a counter-image to the “active utopia” of socialism, the traces of the “active dystopia” can be tra... see more
Peter Beilharz
The Dogs Bark, the Carnival Moves On... Revisiting Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the HolocaustModernity and the Holocaust is now thirty years old. How should we respond to the book, its controversy, and its history or context? In this essay I offer three ... see more
William Outhwaite
Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzezinski (Eds.), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions. Routledge, 2022 [book review]This is a review of the book entitled Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions,&n... see more
Michal Kozlowski
Surrealism, Socialist Realism, Dialogue?The text offers a critical and comprehensive review of Dorota Jarecka’s book Surrealizm, realizm, marksizm. Sztuka i lewica komunistyczna w Polsce w latach 1944–1948 [Surrealism, Realism, Marxism: Art and the C... see more