Modernity’s institutional safeguards against violence all failed during the Holocaust

Evidence

In the years leading to the Final Solution the most trusted of the safeguards had been put to a test. They all failed – one by one, and all together. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 313

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 251; The Holocaust is a possibility modernity contains, not its paradigm — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 49; Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 71 (+2 more)

Related

• The Holocaust was a product of modern civilization, not merely its failure (similarity 0.86)
• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust (similarity 0.85)
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created (similarity 0.83)
• Marginalizing the Holocaust silences its message about modern institutions (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration. (similarity 0.82)
• All Holocaust scholarship is ultimately a debate over modernity’s self-image. (similarity 0.82)
• The social conditions enabling the Holocaust may still be present. (similarity 0.82)
• Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust was a product of modernity, not pre-modern barbarity. (similarity 0.81)
• The Holocaust is a possibility modernity contains, not its paradigm (similarity 0.81)
• The Holocaust functions as a laboratory test revealing modernity’s hidden capacities. (similarity 0.81)
• The Holocaust is a by-product of runaway modernist design (similarity 0.81)
• Every ingredient enabling the Holocaust was normal for modern civilization (similarity 0.81)
• Both dominant readings of the Holocaust leave sociology’s theory of modernity unchallenged (similarity 0.80)
• Modern civilization centralizes rather than abolishes violence (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust #expands (0.95) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 251
• Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. #qualifies (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 71
• The Holocaust was a product of modern civilization, not merely its failure #expands (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 256
• The Holocaust is a possibility modernity contains, not its paradigm #qualifies (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 49
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 32