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Author Stone, Dan, 1971- author.

Title Breeding superman : Nietzsche, race and eugenics in Edwardian and interwar Britain / Dan Stone
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2002
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Description 1 online resource (x, 197 pages)
Series Studies in social and political thought ; 6
Studies in social and political thought ; 6.
Contents Introduction : the extremes of Englishness -- Oscar Levy : a Nietzschean vision -- Anthony Mario Ludovici : a 'light-weight Superman' -- Nietzsche and eugenics -- Race and eugenics -- The 'lethal chamber' in eugenic thought -- Conclusion : from 'underman' to 'underclass.'
Summary "Before the First World War there existed an intellectual turmoil in Britain as great as any in Germany, France or Russia, as the debates over Nietzsche and eugenics in the context of early modernism reveal. With the rise of fascism after 1918, these debates became more ideologically driven, with science and vitalist philosophy being hailed in some quarters as saviours from bourgeois decadence, vituperated in others as heralding the onset of barbarism. Breeding Superman looks at several of the leading Nietzscheans and eugenicists, and challenges the long-cherished belief that British intellectuals were fundamentally uninterested in race. The result is a study of radical ideas which are conventionally written out of histories of the politics and culture of the period"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-193) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Influence
SUBJECT Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 fast
Subject Eugenics -- Great Britain -- Public opinion
Intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Attitudes
Fascism -- Great Britain
Racism -- Great Britain
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Fascism & Totalitarianism.
Racism
Intellectuals -- Attitudes
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Eugenics
Fascism
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781417568055
1417568054
9781846312694
1846312698
9781781386224
1781386226