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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Sociology after the Holocaust -- The Holocaust as the test of modernity -- The meaning of the civilizing process -- Social production of moral indifference -- Social production of moral invisibility -- Moral consequences of the civilizing process -- 2. Modernity, Racism, Extermination I -- Some peculiarities of Jewish estrangement -- Jewish incongruity from Christendom to modernity -- Astride the barricades -- The prismatic group -- Modern dimensions of incongruity -- The non-national nation -- The modernity of racis -- 3. Modernity, Racism, Extermination II -- From heterophobia to racis -- Racism as a form of social engineering -- From repellence to extermination -- Looking ahea -- 4. The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust -- The proble -- Genocide extraordinary -- Peculiarity of modern genocid -- Effects of the hierarchical and functional division of labou -- Dehumanization of bureaucratic object -- The role of bureaucracy in the Holocaus -- Bankruptcy of modern safeguard -- Conclusion -- 5. Soliciting the Co-operation of the Victims -- 'Sealing off' the victim -- The 'save what you can' gam -- Individual rationality in the service of collective destructio -- Rationality of self-preservatio -- Conclusio -- 6. The Ethics of Obedience (Reading Milgram) -- Inhumanity as a function of social distanc -- Complicity after one's own ac -- Technology moralize -- Free-floating responsibilit -- Pluralism of power and power of conscienc -- The social nature of evi -- 7. Towards a Sociological Theory of Morality -- Society as a factory of moralit -- The challenge of the Holocaus -- Pre-societal sources of moralit -- Social proximity and moral responsibilit -- Social suppression of moral responsibilit -- Social production of distanc -- Final remark.

8. Afterthought: Rationality and Shame -- Social Manipulation of Morality: The European Amalfi Prize Lecture -- The Duty to Remember - But What?: Afterword to the 2000 Edition -- Notes.