Metapolitics (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
622
Utgivningsdatum
2003-04-01
Upplaga
2 ed
Förlag
Transaction Publishers
Medarbetare
Viereck, Peter (introd.)
Illustratör/Fotograf
black & white illustrations
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
229 x 153 x 39 mm
Vikt
976 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780765805102

Metapolitics

From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler

Häftad,  Engelska, 2003-04-01
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More than half a century after the fall of the Third Reich, Nazism, its roots and its essential nature, remain a central and unresolved enigma of the twentieth century. During the period of Hitler's ascendancy, most attempts at explaining this unprecedented phenomenon were framed in "economic," often Marxist, sociological terms and concepts. Peter Viereck's Metapolitics, initially published in 1941, broke with this convention by indicting Hitler in terms of the Judaic-Christian ethical tradition and locating certain elements of the Nazi worldview in German romantic poetry, music, and social thought. Newly expanded, Metapolitics remains a key work in the cultural interpretation of Nazism and totalitarianism and in the psychological interpretation of Hitler as a Wagnerite and failed artist. The term "metapolitics," a coinage from Richard Wagner's nationalist circle, signifies an ideology resulting from five distinct strands: romanticism (embodied chiefly in the Wagnerian ethos), the pseudo-science of race, Fuehrer worship, vague economic socialism, and the alleged supernatural and unconscious force of the Volk collectivity. Together, those elements engendered an emphasis on irrationalism and hysteria and belief in a special German mission to direct the course of the world's history. Viereck analyzes nineteenth-century German thought's conflicting attitudes toward political procedures and social arrangements rooted in classical, rational, legalistic, and Christian traditions. This edition includes an appreciation by Thomas Mann and an exchange with Jacques Barzun debating Viereck's criticism of German romanticism. Viereck's essays on the case of Albert Speer, on Claus von Stauffenberg (the German officer who led the army conspiracy to assassinate Hitler), and on the poets Stefan George and Georg Heym appear here for the first time in book form.
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Peter Viereck is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic, and historian. He held the Kenan Chair in History at Mount Holyoke College. Among his books are Conservatism: From John Adams to Churchill, Conservatism Revisited, Unadjusted Man, Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals, and Tide and Continuities: Last and First Poems.

Innehållsförteckning

NEW SURVEY FOR THE 1960's. METAPOLITICS I. The German Problem II. Romanticism and the Cult of Life: An Attempt at Definition III . From 1648 to 1848: The Two Souls in Action IV Father Jahn, the First Storm Trooper V. Siegfried: The Metapolitics of Richard Wagner VI. Hitler and Wagner XII. Prophet Laureate of Metapolitics: Part II XIII. Nazi Religion versus Christian Religion XIX. Metapolitics in Action: The Theology of Terror N. The Flawed Genius of Stefan George and His Historical Context v. Twilight of the Outward Life