Sociology is concerned with modern society but has never come to terms withone of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity the Holocaust.The book... » 

Sociology is concerned with modern society but has never come to terms withone of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity the Holocaust.The book examines what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust but moreparticularly concentrates upon the lessons which the Holocaust has forsociology. Baumans work demonstrates that the Holocaust has to be understoodas deeply involved with the nature of modernity. There is nothing comparable tothis work available in the sociological literature. «