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31 de ene. de 1995 · On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society [Himmelfarb, Gertrude] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
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31 de ene. de 1995 · Books. On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society. Gertrude Himmelfarb. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 31, 1995 - History - 224 pages. In...
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On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society | Semantic Scholar. DOI: 10.2307/3194852. Corpus ID: 153590889. On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society. G. Himmelfarb. Published 1994. Sociology, History. View via Publisher. Save to Library. Create Alert. Cite. 62 Citations. Citation Type.
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.
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...
On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society. by Gertrude Himmelfarb (New York: Knopf), 192 pp. review by Marian Therese Horvat. It is not a comfortable position or a place for the fainthearted: to stand on the edge of the abyss of postmodernism, to peer in, and to dare to criticize the beasts of contemporary intellectual ...
