On Looking Into the Abyss Untimely Thoughts

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.

Gertrude Himmelfarb is Professor Emeritus of History at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

Introduction	p. ix
On Looking into the Abyss	p. 3
Of Heroes, Villains, and Valets	p. 27
From Marx to Hegel	p. 50
Liberty: "One Very Simple Principle"?	p. 74
The Dark and Bloody Crossroads Where Nationalism and Religion Meet	p. 107
Where Have All the Footnotes Gone?	p. 122
Postmodernist History	p. 131
Notes	p. 163
Index	p. 189
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