On looking into the Abyss : (Record no. 91339)

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LC control number 93004928
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International Standard Book Number 0679428267
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Classification number E169.12
Item number .H56 1994
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Classification number ARCH YNDC 973.9 H658O
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
9 (RLIN) 13675
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title On looking into the Abyss :
Remainder of title untimely thoughts on culture and society /
Statement of responsibility, etc Gertrude Himmelfarb.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Knopf,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1994.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvi, 192 p. ;
Dimensions 22 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-188) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note On looking into the abyss -- Of heros, villans, and valets -- From Marx to Hegel -- Liberty : "one very simple principle"? -- The dark and the bloody crossroads where nationalism and religion meet -- Where have all the footnotes gone? -- Postmodernist history.
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Summary, etc In these perceptive essays, the highly regarded historian Gertrude Himmelfarb critically examines the cultural and ideological fashions of contemporary America. She analyzes the intellectual arrogance and spiritual impoverishment at the heart of such current academic movements in history, literature, and philosophy as structuralism, deconstructionism, and postmodernism - and shows how they have led to the belittling of one of the great tragedies of all time, the Holocaust. And she demonstrates the intimate, pervasive relationship between what is taught in our universities and what happens in society. She describes how the very idea of the "abyss" is made trivial and banal; how the role of the hero in history is being usurped by the writer of history; how with the end of the Cold War the greatest threat to liberalism is liberalism itself, how the link between nationalism and religion has been dangerously ignored; and how the relativization of history leads to its de-moralization and de-humanization. Provocative and incisive, Gertrude Himmelfarb's writings force us to examine our ideas about the troubling issues that concern our society and culture today.
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Geographic name United States
General subdivision Intellectual life
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
9 (RLIN) 16734
Geographic name United States
General subdivision Civilization
Chronological subdivision 1970-
9 (RLIN) 16735
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Display text Online version:
Main entry heading Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
Title On looking into the Abyss.
Edition 1st ed.
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : Knopf, 1994
Record control number (OCoLC)606522925
Display text Online version:
Main entry heading Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
Title On looking into the Abyss.
Edition 1st ed.
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : Knopf, 1994
Record control number (OCoLC)621965615
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