On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society

Author/Contributor(s):	Himmelfarb, Gertrude
Publisher:	Vintage
Date:	1/31/1995
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.