Format:
Online-Ressource (405 p)
ISBN:
9780231111959
Series Statement:
Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Content:
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 m
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Series Page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Beyond the Common Measure; 2. The Origins of Dark Times; 3. A Seminar on the State; 4. A New Objectivity; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231507424
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231111959
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Desolation and Enlightenment : Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism and the Holocaust
Language:
English
Keywords:
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