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Author Katznelson, Ira.

Title Desolation and enlightenment : political knowledge after total war, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust / Ira Katznelson.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]
©2003
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 185 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Beyond the common measure -- The origins of dark times -- A seminar on the state -- A new objectivity.
Summary During and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating evil as an analytical category, they sought to discover the sources of twentieth-century horror and the potentialities of the modern state in the wake of western desolation. In the process, they devised strikingly new ways to understand politics, sociology and history that reverberate still. In t.
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Subject Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
Political science -- Philosophy.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Human behavior -- Philosophy.
Human behavior -- Philosophy.
Human behavior.
Political psychology.
Political psychology.
Political sociology.
Political sociology.
World politics -- 1945-1989.
World politics.
Chronological Term 1945-1989
Subject War (Philosophy)
War (Philosophy)
International relations -- Philosophy.
International relations -- Philosophy.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jews -- Public opinion -- History.
Jews -- Public opinion.
History.
Chronological Term 1939-1989
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Katznelson, Ira. Desolation and enlightenment. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003 0231111940 (DLC) 2002031579 (OCoLC)50582910
ISBN 0231507429 (electronic book)
9780231507424 (electronic book)
9780231111942
0231111940

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