Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge after Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust, Ira Katznelson (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), xvi + 186 pp., cloth 29.00, pbk. 17.50
The total collapse of the European geopolitical system of liberal and democratic states in the historical process that culminated in World War II involved unprecedented phenomena—total war, totalitarianism, and the destruction of the European Jews. Taken together, these experiences were so traumatic...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 543-546 |
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| Summary: | The total collapse of the European geopolitical system of liberal and democratic states in the historical process that culminated in World War II involved unprecedented phenomena—total war, totalitarianism, and the destruction of the European Jews. Taken together, these experiences were so traumatic that the immediate postwar era saw a wide range of intellectual responses. Some conservatives advocated a return to an earlier Christian culture based on religious authority and belief in the supernatural (e.g., T. S. Eliot) or even a revival of the values and epistemology of ancient Greece (e.g., Leo Strauss). Orthodox Marxists, on the other hand, became even more convinced that the capitalist economic system was doomed to failure. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dci052 |