Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust

Ira Katznelson

Paper, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11195-9
$24.00 / £14.00

April, 2003
Cloth, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11194-2
$77.50 / £45.50

Preface and Acknowledgments,

One: Beyond Common Measure

Two: The Origins of Dark Times

Three: A Seminar on the State

Four: A New Objectivity

Related Subjects

• American History
• Political Theory

Series

• Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures

About the Author

Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including Marxism and the City and the award-winning Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik. He has served as president of the Social Science History Association and of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association.

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