I've read a bit of the book,"Modernity and the Holocaust." For a pomo sociologist, Bauman is a good read.
A book that extensively reviews that work is by Yehuda Bauer, "Rethinking The Holocaust, " in the same chapter that examines, "Reactionary Modernism, " by Jeffrey Herf.
Herf, btw, has morphed from an ex-SDS'er that wrote alot for Telos in the 70's and 80's and under the impact of the Euro-missiles debate and other contemporary events, dropped his Frankfurter ways and picked up some Raymond Aron...His book on Memory in the the two Germanies and the counterfeit anti-fascism of the GDR as seen in the Purge Trial of Paul Merkur (a veteran of the
internationalist Brigades of the Spanish Civil War) is well worth a read. Much better than the more recent book fropm Yale Univ. Press on the FBI and German communist exiles in the USA and Mexico in the forties, "Communazis, " by some Geram academic. Michael Pugliese