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Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler

Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler

Paperback

Social Movements

ISBN10: 0765805103
ISBN13: 9780765805102
Publisher: Transaction Publ
Published: Apr 30 2003
Pages: 622
Weight: 2.15
Height: 1.55 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

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.

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