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1 online resource (viii, 285 pages) |
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The collected works of Eric Voegelin ; v. 31 |
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Voegelin, Eric, 1901-1985.
Works. 1989 ; v. 31.
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Eric Voegelin's "Hitler and the Germans" -- Lectures in the Context of the Germans' -- Treatment of Their Nazi Past / Detlev Clemens -- The Philosophical Context of the "Hitler and the Germans" Lectures / Brendan Purcell 21 -- Part I. Descent into the Abyss -- 2. Development of Diagnostic Tools 70 -- 3. Descent into the Academic Abyss as Manifested by Schramm's "Anatomy of a Dictator" 110 -- 4. Descent into the Ecclesiastical Abyss: The Evangelical Church 155 -- 5. Descent into the Ecclesiastical Abyss: The Catholic Church 184 -- 6. Descent into the Legal Abyss 213 -- Part II. Toward a Restoration of Order -- 7. First and Second Reality in Ancient, Post-medieval, and Modern Times of Crisis 239 -- 8. The Greatness of Max Weber 257 |
| Summary |
Between 1933 & 1938, Eric Voegelin published four books that expressly stated his opposition to the increasingly powerful Hitler regime. As a result, he was forced to leave his homeland in 1938. Twenty years later, he returned to Germany as a professor of political science at Ludwig-Maximilian University. Voegelin's homecoming allowed him the opportunity to voice once again his opinions on the Nazi regime & its aftermath. In 1964 at the University of Munich, Voegelin gave a series of memorable lectures on what he considered "the central German experiential problem" of his time: Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reasons for it, & its consequences for post-Nazi Germany. For Voegelin, these questions demanded a scrutiny of the mentality of individual Germans & of the order of German society during & after the Nazi period. Hitler & the Germans, published here for the first time, offers Voegelin's most extensive & detailed critique of the Hitler era. Voegelin interprets this era in terms of the basic diagnostic tools provided by the philosophy of Plato & Aristotle, Judeo-Christian culture, & contemporary German-language writers like Heimito von Doderer, Karl Kraus, Thomas Mann, & Robert Musil. His inquiry uncovers a historiography that was substantially unhistoric: a German Evangelical Church that misinterpreted the Gospel, a German Catholic Church that denied universal humanity, & a legal process enmeshed in criminal homicide. Hitler & the Germans provides a profound alternative approach to the topic of the individual German's entanglement in the Hitler regime & its continuing implications. This comprehensive reading of the Nazi period has yet to be matched |
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Lectures delivered in the summer of 1964 at the University of Munich |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Translated from the German |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945. fast (OCoLC)fst00034591 |
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Heads of state -- Germany -- Biography
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National socialism -- Philosophy
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Racism -- Germany
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Heads of state.
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National socialism -- Philosophy.
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Politics and government
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Racism.
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Nationaal-socialisme.
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640
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Germany.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Clemens, Detlev.
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Purcell, Brendan M., 1941-
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| ISBN |
0826263887 |
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9780826263889 |
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0826212166 |
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9780826212160 |
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