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Desolation and enlightenment : political knowledge after total war, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust /

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. Treati...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Katznelson, Ira
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003.
Collection:University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xvi, 185 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0231507429
9780231507424
9780231111959
0231111959