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Tables of Contents for Modernity and the Holocaust
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Introduction: Sociology after the Holocaust
1
30
The Holocaust as the test of modernity
6
6
The meaning of the civilizing process
12
6
Social production of moral indifference
18
6
Social production of moral invisibility
24
3
Moral consequences of the civilizing process
27
4
Modernity, Racism, Extermination I
31
30
Some peculiarities of Jewish estrangement
33
4
Jewish incongruity from Christendom to modernity
37
4
Astride the barricades
41
1
The prismatic group
42
4
Modern dimensions of incongruity
46
6
The non-national nation
52
4
The modernity of racism
56
5
Modernity, Racism, Extermination II
61
22
From heterophobia to racism
62
4
Racism as a form of social engineering
66
6
From repellence to extermination
72
5
Looking ahead
77
6
The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust
83
34
The problem
85
3
Genocide extraordinary
88
5
Peculiarity of modern genocide
93
5
Effects of the hierarchical and functional division of labour
98
4
Dehumanization of bureaucratic objects
102
2
The role of bureaucracy in the Holocaust
104
3
Bankruptcy of modern safeguards
107
4
Conclusions
111
6
Soliciting the Co-operation of the Victims
117
34
`Sealing off' the victims
122
7
The `save what you can' game
129
6
Individual rationality in the service of collective destruction
135
7
Rationality of self-preservation
142
7
Conclusion
149
2
The Ethics of Obedience (Reading Milgram)
151
18
Inhumanity as a function of social distance
155
2
Complicity after one's own act
157
2
Technology moralized
159
2
Free-floating responsibility
161
2
Pluralism of power and power of conscience
163
3
The social nature of evil
166
3
Towards a Sociological Theory of Morality
169
32
Society as a factory of morality
170
5
The challenge of the Holocaust
175
4
Pre-societal sources of morality
179
5
Social proximity and moral responsibility
184
4
Social suppression of moral responsibility
188
4
Social production of distance
192
6
Final remarks
198
3
Afterthought: Rationality and Shame
201
50
Social Manipulation of Morality: The European Amalfi Prize Lecture
208
14
The Duty to Remember-But What?: Afterword to the 2000 Edition
222
29
Notes
251