During and especially after World War II, 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 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 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 the Holocaust.
Confronting dashed hopes for reason and knowledge, they asked not
just whether the Enlightenment should define modernity but also
which Enlightenment we should wish to have.
General
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2020 |
| First published: |
2020 |
| Authors: |
Ira Katznelson
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
208 |
| Edition: |
anniversary edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-19789-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-231-19789-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780231197892 |
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