Anson Rabinbach, Wolfgang Bialas

Nazi Germany and The Humanities (eBook, ePUB)

How German Academics Embraced Nazism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

MERGEFIELD AI_Copy In 1933, Jews and, to a lesser extent, political opponents of the Nazis, suffered an unprecedented loss of positions and livelihood at Germany's universities. With few exceptions, the academic elite welcomed and justified the acts of the Nazi regime, uttered no word of protest when their Jewish and liberal colleagues were dismissed, and did not stir when Jewish students were barred admission. The subject of how German scholars responded to the Nazi regime continues to be a fascinating area of scholarship. In this collection, Rabinbach and Bialas bring some of the best scholarly contributions together in one cohesive volume, to deliver a shocking conclusion: whatever diverse motives German intellectuals may have had in 1933, the image of Nazism as an alien power imposed on German universities from without was a convenient fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780746166
• Artikelnr.: 41207500

Autorenporträt

Dr. Anson Rabinbach is a specialist in modern European history with an emphasis on intellectual and cultural history. He has published extensively on Nazi Germany, Austria, and European thought in the nineteenth and twentieth century. He is currently director of European Cultural Studies at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Humanities in Nazi Germany
Wolfgang Bialas and Anson Rabinbach
Chapter I: Georg Bollenbeck
The Humanities in Germany after 1933: Semantic Transformations and
the Nazification of the Disciplines
Chapter II Steven P. Remy
"We are no longer the university of the liberal age:" The Humanities and
National Socialism at Heidelberg
Chapter III Erhard Bahr
The Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar as Showcase of Germanistik during
the Weimar Republic and the Nazi Regime
Chapter IV Dieter Thomä
Difficulty of Democracy Rethinking the Political in the Philosophy of the
Thirties (Gehlen, Schmitt, Heidegger)
Chapter V Richard Wolin
Fascism and Hermeneutics: Gadamer and the Ambiguities of "Inner
Emigration"
Chapter VI Martin Schwab
Nietzsche's Nazi Affinities
Chapter VII Karl-Siegbert Rehberg
Arnold Gehlen: "Images of mankind" and the idea of order in Philosophical
Anthropology
Chapter VIII Willi Oberkrome
German Historical Scholarship under National Socialism
Chapter IX Jane O. Newman
Baroque Studies: The Legacy of Walter Benjamin in the Third Reich
Chapter X Susanne Marchand
Nazism, 'Orientalism' and Humanism
Chapter XI Frank-Rutger Hausmann, English and American Studies
In Nazi Germany
Chapter XII Volker Losemann
Classics in the Second World War
Chapter XIII Susannah Heschel
The Theological Faculty at the University of Jena as "a Stronghold of
National Socialism"
Chapter XIV Alan E. Steinweis
Nazi Historical Scholarship on the "Jewish Question"