Toward Nationalism's End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn - Rilegato

Gordon, Adi

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ISBN 10: 1512600865 ISBN 13: 9781512600865

Casa editrice: Brandeis Univ, 2017

Riassunto

This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891–1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist. Hans Kohn was born in late nineteenth-century Prague, but his peripatetic life took him from the Revolutionary-era Russia to interwar-era Palestine under the British Empire to the United States during the Cold War. Bearing witness to dramatic reconfigurations of national and political identities, he spearheaded an intellectual revolution that fundamentally challenged assumptions about the “naturalness” and the immutability of nationalism. Reconstructing Kohn’s long and fascinating career, Gordon uncovers the multiple political and intellectual trends that intersected with and shaped his theories of nationalism. Throughout his life, Kohn was not simply a theorist but also a participant in multiple and often conflicting movements: Zionism and anti-Zionism, pacifism, liberalism, and military interventionism. His evolving theories thus drew from and reflected fierce debates about the nature of internationalism, imperialism, liberalism, collective security, and especially the Jewish Question. Kohn’s scholarship was not an abstraction but a product of his lived experience as a Habsburg Jew, an erstwhile cultural Zionist, and an American Cold Warrior. As a product of the times, his concepts of nationalism reflected the changing world around him and evolved radically over his lifetime. His intellectual biography thus offers a panorama of the dynamic intellectual cornerstones of the twentieth century.

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L'autore:

ADI GORDON is an assistant professor of history at Amherst College. He is the author of In Palestine: In a Foreign Land and the editor of Brith Shalom and Bi-National Zionism: “The Arab Question” as a Jewish Question.

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• Editore: Brandeis Univ
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1512600865
• ISBN 13: 9781512600865
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 328