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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.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). --- Human behavior --- International relations --- Jews --- Political psychology. --- Political science --- Political sociology. --- Total war. --- War (Philosophy). --- World politics --- Philosophy. --- Public opinion --- History. --- Human behavior -- Philosophy. --- Coexistence (World politics) --- War (Philosophy) --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Military policy --- Strategy --- War --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Peaceful coexistence --- Philosophy --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Sociology --- Politics, Practical --- Psychology, Political --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Action, Human --- Behavior, Human --- Ethology --- Human action --- Human beings --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Social sciences --- Psychology, Comparative --- Political philosophy --- Nazi persecution --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Sociological aspects --- Psychological aspects --- Behavior --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945)

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Working class --- History --- Working class - France - History - 19th century --- Working class - United States - History - 19th century --- Working class - Germany - History - 19th century

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Historical sociology. --- Institutions (Philosophy). --- Political sociology. --- Preferences (Philosophy). --- Rational choice theory --- Social institutions. --- Political aspects.

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#SBIB:32H3 --- #SBIB:324H10 --- Politieke wetenschappen: inleidende werken, handboeken, methoden --- Politologie: algemene documentatie en bronnen --- #A0303PO --- Political science. --- State, The. --- Political science --- State, The --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- Civil government --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences

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The book addresses contemporary developments in European identity politics as part of a larger historical trajectory of a common European identity based on the idea of 'solidarity.' The authors explain the special sense in which Europeans perceive their obligations to their less fortunate compatriots, to the new East European members, and to the world at large. An understanding of this notion of 'solidarity' is critical to understanding the specific European commitment to social justice and equality. The specificity of this term helps to distinguish between what the Germans call "social state" from the Anglo-Saxon, and particularly American, political and social system focused on capitalism and economic liberalism. This collection is the result of the work of an extremely distinguished group of scholars and politicians, invited by the previous President of the European Union, Romano Prodi, to reflect on some of the most important subjects affecting the future of Europe.

European cooperation. --- European federation. --- Europe --- Religion. --- Federation of Europe --- Pan Europa movement --- Paneuropean federation --- United States of Europe (Proposed) --- Federal government --- Regionalism (International organization) --- International cooperation --- 21st century, Europe, European cooperation, Identity.