Reflections on modernity and the holocaust from Zygmunt bauman

Authors

  • Francisco Jozivan Guedes de Lima

Keywords:

Modernity. Holocaust. Extermination. Memory. Responsibility.

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the relation between Modernity and Holocaust starting from of the contributions of Bauman, having as conducting wire of its reflections the idea which the Holocaust meant the apogee and the failure of the modern rationality. At the heart of this rationality lies the depolitization, demoralization and the dejurisdicization of individual. As consequence, occur the strengthening of the technocracy and the bureaucratic restriction of life, consolidating thus the ideal of the Gardener State which consists in to separate the wheat from the tare, even if this cleanness be executed from the practices of extermination.

Author Biography

Francisco Jozivan Guedes de Lima

Doutorando em Filosofia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS).

Published

2014-08-13

Issue

Section

Varia