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1 online resource (132 pages) |
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Value Inquiry Book Series ; v. 247 |
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Value inquiry book series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; EDITORIAL FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1. General Considerations; 2. Objectives; 3. Hypotheses; 4. Methodology; 5. A Brief Recall of Definitions; One The Historical Context of Nazi Ideology; 1. Modernity and Reason; 2. Nationalism in Germany; 3. Anti-Semitism and the Biological Paradigm; 4. The Impact of World War I; 5. Nazi Ideology in the Aftermath of World War I; 6. In Summary; Two The SS System and Nazi Ideology; 1. The Origins of the SS; 2. Himmler and the Great War; 3. The SS System and the Waffen SS |
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4. The Production and Dissemination of Ideology5. The "Originality" of SS Thinking; Three SS Ontology; 1. The SS Weltanschauung; 2. SS Pantheism and the Laws of Life; 3. Volk and Blood; 4. In Summary; Four SS Anthropology; 1. Race: The Basic Marker; 2. Race in Pictures; 3. Minderwertige, Jews, and Bolshevism; 4. In Summary; Five SS Ethics; 1. Himmler: Ethics and Ideology; A. Himmler's Moral Consciousness; B. The Ideological Transfiguration of Morality; C. The Moral Transfiguration of Ideology; 2. SS Conscience and Nazi Values; 3. In Summary; Six The Police Of Nazi Praxis; 1. Going East |
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2. Cleansing the East3. The Victory of the Child; 4. The Tasks of the SS; 5. In Summary; Seven The Police of History; 1. The Cult of Germanic Ancestors; 2. The End of the Enlightenment; 3. The Trauma of 1918; 4. The Blockade; 5. The Dolchstoss; 6. Mein Kampf and Its Aftermath; 7. In Summary; Eight The Police of Being; 1. Ethics as Eugenics; 2. The Biological Security of Lebensraum; 3. Total War For Total Health; 4. Operation Barbarossa and the Holocaust; 5. The Antibiotic Character of SS Praxis; 6. The SS Rationale for Killing the Jews; 7. In Summary; Nine SS Ideology Remembered |
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1. The Holocaust Memorial Museums and Education Centers2. Does the Starting Hypothesis Verify?; 3. Philosophy by Means of Photography; A. Ontology Revisited; B. Anthropology Revisited; C. Ethics Revisited; 4. In Summary; Ten Conclusion; 1. Philosophy and Ideology; 2. SS Thinking Revisited; Works Cited; About the Author; Index |
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SS ideology was the expression of an apparently philosophical self-containing system of thought, articulated around a systematic body of knowledge claiming to integrate humanity inside a global vision of Being. Using ontology and anthropology as foundations, SS thinking developed essentially in the field of ethics. It portrayed itself as a global approach to society and civilization, based on eugenics and ethnic cleansing. It accomplished the fusion of the modern biological paradigm with the cultural shock brought about by World War I and promoted total war for the sake of total health. And si |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nazis -- Psychology
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National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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HISTORY -- Holocaust.
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National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Nazis -- Psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401207829 |
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9401207828 |
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