How long does it take to read Modernity and the Holocaust?
Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman takes about 4 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 253 pages, about 69,575 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A new afterword to this edition, "The duty to remember, but What?," tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence on the individual and societal levels. Bauman explores the silences found in debates about the Holocaust, and asks what the historical facts of the Holocaust tell us about the hidden capacities of present-day life. He finds great danger in such phenomena as the seductiveness of martyrdom; going to extremes in the same of safety; the insidious efects of tragic memory, and efficient, "scientific" implementation of the death penalty. Bauman writes, "Once the problem of the guilt of the Holocaust perpetrators has been by and large settled and with the passing of time lost a good deal of its urgency and practical edge, the one big remaining question is the innocence of all the rest- not the least innocence of ourselves."--publisher description.
Subjects: Sociological aspects, Psychological aspects of Genocide, Sociological aspects of Genocide, Political aspects of Genocide, Genocide, Psychological aspects
