Announcement | 13. June 2005
Katznelson Wins Spitz Prize
Congratulations to Ira Katznelson, winner of the 2005 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book in liberal and/or democratic theory. Katznelson is the Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History and the Director of the American Institutions Project at ISERP.
His book, Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge after Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust, examines the writings of scholars and historians who came together to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals after the devastating effects of World War II. The scholars examined in this major intellectual history include Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi and David Truman.
