Desolation and enlightenment : political knowledge after total war, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust / Ira Katznelson.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xvi, 185 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0231111940
- 9780231111942
- 301.01 21
- JA71 .K35 2003
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301.01 JOH The forest and the trees : sociology as life, practice, and promise / | 301.01 JOS Marxism and social theory / | 301.01 KAH Modernity and exclusion / | 301.01 KAT Desolation and enlightenment : political knowledge after total war, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust / | 301.01 KEY Key sociological thinkers / | 301.01 KEY Key sociological thinkers / | 301.01 LAS Economies of signs and space / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Beyond the Common Measure -- 2. The Origins of Dark Times -- 3. A Seminar on the State -- 4. A New Objectivity.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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