Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust
(Part of the Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231111959
ISBN13:9780231111959
Release Date:August 2004
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:185 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.7" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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