Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust

by Ira Katznelson

Book Overview

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