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BOKSER MISSES-LIWERANT, Judit. Holocaust, Modernity, Memory... New Critical Reflections on Bauman. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2017, vol.62, n.230, pp.339-358. ISSN 0185-1918.

Zygmunt Bauman’s work has emerged as a significant contribution to critical thinking aimed at redefining and expanding the margins of disciplinary reflection, to incorporate trends and events that have exposed the limits of the complex process of construction of Modernity. Among the topics brought to the field of sociological inquiry, an important place has been occupied by the Holocaust. The article argues that the analysis of the event is subsumed in the conceptualization of Modernity, as articulated by the Enlightenment, disregards the theoretical and practical struggles to define it and its impact on the Jewish condition, and extends its analysis to the conceptualization of the victims, their specificity, the approach to memory and the implications of the links between morality and political criticism.

Palavras-chave : Modernity; Enlightenment; Romantic Historicism; Holocaust; anti-Semitism.