On Looking Into the Abyss
Author: Himmelfarb, Gertrude
ISBN: 9780679759232
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 31 Jan 1995
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
ISBN: 9780679759232
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 31 Jan 1995
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
