TY - BOOK ID - 18038050 TI - Desolation and enlightenment PY - 2003 SN - 0231111940 0231507429 0231111959 9780231507424 9780231111959 9780231111942 PB - New York Columbia University Press DB - UniCat KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). KW - Human behavior KW - International relations KW - Jews KW - Political psychology. KW - Political science KW - Political sociology. KW - Total war. KW - War (Philosophy). KW - World politics KW - Philosophy. KW - Public opinion KW - History. KW - Human behavior -- Philosophy. KW - Coexistence (World politics) KW - War (Philosophy) KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Military policy KW - Strategy KW - War KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) KW - Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Holocaust, Nazi KW - Ḥurban (1939-1945) KW - Ḥurbn (1939-1945) KW - Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) KW - Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) KW - Nazi Holocaust KW - Nazi persecution of Jews KW - Shoʾah (1939-1945) KW - Genocide KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Kindertransports (Rescue operations) KW - Peaceful coexistence KW - Philosophy KW - Mass political behavior KW - Political behavior KW - Sociology KW - Politics, Practical KW - Psychology, Political KW - Psychology KW - Social psychology KW - Action, Human KW - Behavior, Human KW - Ethology KW - Human action KW - Human beings KW - Human biology KW - Physical anthropology KW - Social sciences KW - Psychology, Comparative KW - Political philosophy KW - Nazi persecution KW - Persecutions KW - Atrocities KW - Jewish resistance KW - Sociological aspects KW - Psychological aspects KW - Behavior KW - Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) KW - Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) KW - Nazi persecution (1939-1945) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18038050 AB - During 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. ER -