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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794815903321

Autore

Gordon Adi <1970->

Titolo

Toward nationalism's end : an intellectualbiography of Hans Kohn / / Adi Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lebanon, New Hampshire : , : Brandeis University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5126-0088-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm.)

Collana

Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry

Disciplina

320.54092

Soggetti

Jewish philosophers

Nationalism - Philosophy - History - 20th century

Zionism - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Authenticity and political ruin, 1908-1920 -- A turning inward: Kohn's youth in multinational late Habsburg Prague -- "The decisive years": the Great War and the waning of imperial world order -- Separating nation and state, 1919-1934 -- To tame empire, nation, and man: political agenda in the 1920s -- Nation and state in Kohn's scholarship and Jewish thought -- "A disillusioned love": break with Zionism -- An affirming flame, 1933-1971 -- "The totalitarian crisis" and "the last best hope": catastrophic Americanization and breakthrough -- Nationalism in the American century -- The endurance of Kohn's Jewish question.

Sommario/riassunto

"Portrait of Jewish American philosopher and historian Hans Kohn"--