Enlightenment and Genocide, Contradictions of Modernity
On the threshold to the 21st century the cry never again seems illusory, even absurd. Did it ever harbour credibility? Were we so naive? The Holocaust was not a finality, not the end of final solutions in Europe. Genocide has continued to emerge as an active element in European politics and policies. Kosovo and Bosnia provide testament. This book presents the concept of genocide as a political and social tool in modern Europe, not only reconciled with modernity, but as what may be an integral component. Modernity, however, is also closely linked with the Enlightenment and its concepts of tolerance, equality and liberty. This volume sheds ligh…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Stråth, Bo (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-90-5201-919-2
- EAN: 9789052019192
- Produktnummer: 19038708
- Verlag: P.i.e.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 274 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B14.9 cm x D1.7 cm 418 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 5
- Gewicht: 418
Über den Autor
The Editors: James Kaye is currently a researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. His research addresses discourses of the home comparatively in Austria and Sweden between the latter half of the 19th and former half of the 20th century. Bo Stråth is Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of History and Civilisation/Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute Florence. He has published widely on political and economic processes. His research focuses comparatively on modernisation and democratisation processes in Northern and Western Europe.
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