On Looking into the Abyss Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society

Name: On Looking into the Abyss Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
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ISBN: 9780679759232

ISBN-10: 0679759239

ISBN-13: 9780679759232

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gertrude Himmelfarb

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In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguished historians looks into the abyss of the present. Himmelfarb exposes the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of some of our most fashionable current ideas--and shows how the vogue for historical structuralism has made it possible to trivialize the tragedy of the Holocaust.

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List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/31/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.60" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Don E. Eberly is the director of the Civil Society Project, a national initiative advancing ideas to strengthen America's social institutions and community life. He is the editor of many books, including "The Content of America's Character: The Recovery of Civic Virtue". Eberly is an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, and founder of the National Fatherhood Initiative. He lives in Lancaster, PA.

Introduction	p. ix
On Looking into the Abyss	p. 3
Of Heroes, Villains, and Valets	p. 27
From Marx to Hegel	p. 50
Liberty: "One Very Simple Principle"?	p. 74
The Dark and Bloody Crossroads Where Nationalism and Religion Meet	p. 107
Where Have All the Footnotes Gone?	p. 122
Postmodernist History	p. 131
Notes	p. 163
Index	p. 189
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