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Desolation and enlightenment : political knowledge after total war, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust / Ira Katznelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katznelson, Ira.
- Series:
- University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures
- Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Human behavior--Philosophy.
- Human behavior.
- Political psychology.
- Political sociology.
- World politics--1945-1989.
- World politics.
- War (Philosophy).
- International relations--Philosophy.
- International relations.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jews--Public opinion--History.
- Jews.
- Total war.
- Jews--Public opinion.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 185 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English.
- 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 this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman, detailing their engagement with the larger project of reclaiming the West's moral bearing."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Beyond the Common Measure
- The origins of Dark Times
- A Seminar on the State
- A New Objectivity
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231111940
- 9780231111942
- 0231111959
- 9780231111959
- OCLC:
- 50582910
- Publisher Number:
- 40009216267
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