Essays in European and American intellectual history

[摘要] The first essay, ;;Contested Languages of Order: Burke and Wollstonecraft in the Revolution Controversy,;; argues that Edmund Burke;;s and Mary Wollstonecraft;;s 1790 debate over the French Revolution brought into focus two competing visions of social order that were engaged in historically transformative conflict across Europe: the fixed and hierarchical versus the progressive and egalitarian. ;;Nietzsche, the Genealogy of Self, History;; examines Friedrich Nietzsche;;s writings on history, ;;genealogy,;; and will to determine how he revises previous philosophical understandings of the self and what new understanding of the self he develops. ;;;;Never Forget,;; ;;Never Again;;: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Terms of Holocaust Memory in America;; explores political and popular debate over the significance of the museum in its American context and the tensions within Holocaust memory revealed by the debate.

[发布机构] Rice University

[效力级别] American history