Desolation and Enlightenment
Subtitle: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: September 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780231111959
Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy; Political science & theory; World history: postwar, from c 1945 -; History; History - Military / War; Politics / Current Events; Military; History & Theory - General; Political; Sociology - Social Theory; Political Science / History & Theory; Military - World War II
First sentence: At the University of Chicago celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its Social Science Research Building in November 1955, Harold Lasswell concluded his remarks by reflecting on the role of social scientists "in the social process," which he summarized as that of "reconstructing our institutions of enlightenment."