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).
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.
Note	Print version record.
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.
Subject	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
	Political science -- Philosophy.
	Human behavior -- Philosophy.
	Political psychology.
	Political sociology.
	World politics -- 1945-1989.
	War (Philosophy)
	International relations -- Philosophy.
	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
	Jews -- Public opinion -- History.
	Total war.
	PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
	Human behavior -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00962822
	International relations -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00977075
	Jews -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst00983340
	Political psychology. (OCoLC)fst01069667
	Political science -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01069819
	Political sociology. (OCoLC)fst01069877
	War (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst01170420
	World politics. (OCoLC)fst01181381
	Politieke filosofie.
	Holocaust.
	Tweede Wereldoorlog.
	Totalitarisme.
	Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis) (NL-LeOCL)078941393
Chronological Term	1939-1989
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Katznelson, Ira. Desolation and enlightenment. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003 0231111940 (DLC) 2002031579 (OCoLC)50582910
ISBN	0231507429 (electronic bk.)
	9780231507424 (electronic bk.)

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