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Author Gordon, Adi, 1970- author.

Title Toward nationalism's end : an intellectual biography of Hans Kohn / Adi Gordon
Published Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages)
Series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
Contents Authenticity and political ruin, 1908-1920 -- A turning inward: Kohn's youth in multinational late Habsburg Prague -- "The decisive years": the Great War and the waning of imperial world order -- Separating nation and state, 1919-1934 -- To tame empire, nation, and man: political agenda in the 1920s -- Nation and state in Kohn's scholarship and Jewish thought -- "A disillusioned love": break with Zionism -- An affirming flame, 1933-1971 -- "The totalitarian crisis" and "the last best hope": catastrophic Americanization and breakthrough -- Nationalism in the American century -- The endurance of Kohn's Jewish question
Summary "Portrait of Jewish American philosopher and historian Hans Kohn"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 29, 2017)
Subject Kohn, Hans, 1891-1971.
SUBJECT Kohn, Hans, 1891-1971 fast
Subject Jewish philosophers -- Biography
Nationalism -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century
Zionism -- Philosophy
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Jewish philosophers
Nationalism -- Philosophy
Zionism -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017027200
ISBN 9781512600889
1512600881