By Lawrence Birken
Birken demanding situations the traditional knowledge that Hitlerism used to be a rebellion opposed to Western values. using Adolph Hitler's significant writings, speeches, and recorded conversations, this path-breaking examine in highbrow heritage delineates the connection of Nazism to different eu ideologies, either earlier and current. nationwide Socialism, Birken continues, was once not anything lower than an try to create a metaphysical beginning for the German countryside after either the Frankfurt meeting and the Bismarckian pseudo-Reich had did not achieve this. during this context, Hitler could be obvious because the final nice exponent of the Enlightenment culture that glorified fraternity. despite the fact that, by means of grounding German nationalism in race, Hitler despatched his state on a course towards destruction within the moment international warfare. Birken closes with the caution that our present failure to supply a post-modern replacement for nationalism invitations the reassertion of the Enlightenment obsessions of kingdom and race. Speculative and far-reaching, this ebook will stimulate the present debate over nationalism and may be of curiosity to scholars of politics and the social sciences in addition to German background buffs.
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Of course, the Franco-Russian alliance and the threat of war on two fronts predisposed the German military to act quickly and aggressively. From the army’s point of view, restraint and caution could only help an enemy with an enormous geopolitical (not to mention demographic) advantage. 8 The German invasion of France through neutral Belgium was thus, from Germany’s point of view, not an aggressive but a kind of preventive war which would make possible any future defense against the Russians. In fact, the invasion was both a propaganda and a military disaster, since the French (reinforced by their British allies) were able to bog the Germans down in what unexpectedly turned out to be a long war of attrition in the trenches of northern France.
3, 146–57, esp. p. 153; Mosse, German Ideology, pp. 4–5. 17. Perry, Western Civilization, p. 425. 32 Hitler as Philosophe 18. Léon Poliakov, The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalist Ideas in Europe (Sussex: Sussex University Press, 1974), pp. 144–45, 169, 175, 273; Traian Stoianovich, “Gender and Family: Myths, Models and Ideologies,” The History Teacher 15 (November 1981): pp. 69–119. 19. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1979), pp.
175–77; Traian Stoianovich, “Gender and Family: Myths, Models and Ideologies,” The History Teacher 15 (November 1981): pp. 69–119; Birken, Consuming Desire, pp. 6, 72–73n. 14. Birken, Consuming Desire, pp. 7–8. 15. , pp. 122–27. 16. , pp. 113–17. 17. Marx’s attitude toward the machine and technology in general is discussed in John Sherwood, “Engels, Marx, Malthus and the Machine,” American Historical Review 90 (October 1985): pp. 837–65. 18. Even Hitler’s attempt to unite “Aryan” capitalists and workers represents a racist analog to older Utopian Socialist and Utilitarian ideas which sought to reconcile operatives and bosses and place them in opposition to the old aristocracy 22 Hitler as Philosophe or middlemen.