LEADER 04637nam 22008894a 450 001 9910780257803321 005 20230912204649.0 010 $a0-231-50742-9 024 7 $a10.7312/katz11194 035 $a(CKB)111087026929486 035 $a(EBL)909021 035 $a(OCoLC)818856531 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000137522 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11150327 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000137522 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10087991 035 $a(PQKB)10453605 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909021 035 $a(DE-B1597)458988 035 $a(OCoLC)53118569 035 $a(OCoLC)979573433 035 $a(OCoLC)984641699 035 $a(OCoLC)987921346 035 $a(OCoLC)992478418 035 $a(OCoLC)999354055 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231507424 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909021 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183364 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL853803 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087026929486 100 $a20020828d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDesolation and enlightenment $epolitical knowledge after total war, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust /$fIra Katznelson 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2003. 210 4$aŠ2003 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 185 pages) 225 0 $aLeonard Hastings Schoff Lectures 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-11195-9 311 0 $a0-231-11194-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tOne: Beyond the Common Measure --$tTwo: The Origins of Dark Times --$tThree: A Seminar on the State --$tFour: A New Objectivity --$tIndex 330 $aDuring and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating evil as an analytical category, they sought to discover the sources of twentieth-century horror and the potentialities of the modern state in the wake of western desolation. In the process, they devised strikingly new ways to understand politics, sociology and history that reverberate still. In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman, detailing their engagement with the larger project of reclaiming the West's moral bearing. In light of their epoch's calamities these intellectuals insisted that the tradition of Enlightenment thought required a new realism, a good deal of renovation, and much recommitment. This array of historians, political philosophers, and social scientists understood that a simple reassertion of liberal modernism had been made radically insufficient by the enormities and moral catastrophes of war, totalitarianism, and holocaust. Confronting their period's dashed hopes for reason and knowledge, they asked not just whether the Enlightenment should define modernity, but which Enlightenment we should wish to have. Decades later, in the midst of a new type of war and reanimated discussions of the concept of evil, we share no small stake in assessing their successes and limitations. 410 0$aUniversity seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aHuman behavior$xPhilosophy 606 $aPolitical psychology 606 $aPolitical sociology 606 $aWorld politics$y1945-1989 606 $aWar (Philosophy) 606 $aInternational relations$xPhilosophy 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 606 $aJews$xPublic opinion$xHistory 606 $aTotal war 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aHuman behavior$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPolitical psychology. 615 0$aPolitical sociology. 615 0$aWorld politics 615 0$aWar (Philosophy) 615 0$aInternational relations$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 615 0$aJews$xPublic opinion$xHistory. 615 0$aTotal war. 676 $a301/.01 700 $aKatznelson$b Ira$0129222 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780257803321 996 $aDesolation and enlightenment$93687226 997 $aUNINA