It was the rational world of modern civilization that made the Holocaust unthinkable. — Zygmunt Bauman Modernity, as the late Zygmunt Bauman noted in his magisterially provocative Modernity and the Holocaust (1989) has not necessarily entailed enlightenment, the liberation from immaturity.  Since the cave dweller existence, humanity has retained traditional forms of savagery.  What mattered was … Continue reading Liquid Modernity: Zygmunt Bauman and the Rootless Condition