19th century german history
20th century german history
A01=Fritz R. Stern
antimodernity
art and politics
arthur moeller van den bruck
Author_Fritz R. Stern
california library reprint series
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conservative politics
conservative revolutionary movement
cultural crisis
cultural criticism
cultural studies
das dritte reich
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fascism
german nationalism
german philosopher
germany
germany history
hitler
idealism
irrationalism
julius langbehn
nation
national romantic art historian
nationalism
nazis
nazism
paul de lagarde
reforms
third reich
utopia
Product details
- ISBN 9780520026261
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 07 Oct 1974
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbehn, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives spanning the years from the middle of the past century to the threshold of Hitler's Third Reich-attacked, often incisively and justly, the deficiencies of German culture and the German spirit. But they were more than the critics of Germany's cultural crisis; they were its symptoms and victims as well. Unable to endure the ills which they diagnosed and which they had experienced in their own lives, they sought to become prophets who would point the way to a national rebirth. Hence, they propounded all manner of reforms, ruthless and idealistic, nationalistic and utopian. It was this leap from despair to utopia across all existing reality that gave their thought its fantastic quality.
Fritz Richard Stern is an American historian of German history, Jewish history, and historiography. He is a University Professor Emeritus and a former provost at New York's Columbia University.
