Ira Katznelson
Desolation and enlightenment
- ISBN 13:
- 9780231111959
- author:
- Ira Katznelson
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2004
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 22.76 x 14.38 x 1.42 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Politics, History & Theory,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Desolation and Enlightenment explores how a group of leading scholars redefined Western liberal ideals in the aftermath of World War II. They sought to understand the sources of twentieth-century horror and the potentialities of the modern state, devising new ways to comprehend politics, sociology, and history. Ira Katznelson examines the works of these influential thinkers, including Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman. Their work aimed to reclaim the West's moral bearing in light of its calamities, insisting that a new realism was needed to renovate liberal modernism. Decades later, this intellectual history remains relevant as we assess the successes and limitations of these thinkers' ideas.
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