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23%OFFIra Katznelson - Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust - 9780231111942 - V9780231111942
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Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust

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Description for Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust Hardback. 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. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; HPQ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231111942
SKU
V9780231111942
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About Ira Katznelson
Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including Marxism and the City and the award-winning Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik. He has served as president of the Social Science History Association and of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association.

Reviews for Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust
In this masterful excursion into the history of ideas, Katznelson explores how a 'reconstructionist' generation of political scholars has since attempted to make sense of these dark times and rethink the bases of political theory and liberal community... Although the book was written largely before the attacks of September 11, 2001, it speaks powerfully to today's struggles to reconcile liberal ... Read more

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