The Other God that Failed
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The Other God that Failed

Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism

  1. 472 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Other God that Failed

Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism

About this book

Why did some of the "best and brightest" of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their "radical conservatism" contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did they play in the Third Reich? How did their experience of totalitarianism lead them to recast their social and political thought? This biography of Hans Freyer, a prominent German sociologist and political ideologist, is a case study of intellectuals and a "god that failed"--not on the political left, but on the right, where its significance has been overlooked. The author explores the interaction of political ideology and academic social science in democratic and totalitarian regimes, the transformation of German conservatism by the experience of National Socialism, and the ways in which tension between former collaborators and former opponents of National Socialism continued to mold West German intellectual life in the postwar decades.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Science as a Vocation, 1887–1914
  10. 2. War, Revolution, and Generational Mission, 1914–1920
  11. 3. Radical Conservatism as Social Theory, 1920–1925
  12. 4. Ideology and Social Science in Freyer's Practice of Sociology, 1925–1933
  13. 5. Ideology and Social Science in Freyer's Theory of Sociology, 1925–1933
  14. 6. Revolution from the Right: Theory, 1925–1933
  15. 7. Revolution from the Right: Practice, 1933–1935
  16. 8. The Dynamics of Disillusionment, 1935–1945
  17. 9. New Conservatism and a New Respectability, 1945–1961
  18. 10. Hans Freyer and the Fate of German Intellectual Conservatism, 1945–1985
  19. Appendix: Variations on the Theme of "The Other God That Failed": Ernst Forsthoff, Arnold Gehlen, and Hans Zehrer
  20. References
  21. Index