Nazi Germany and The Humanities

How German Academics Embraced Nazism

Anson Rabinbach, Wolfgang Bialas

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Year: 2014
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781780746166
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

MERGEFIELD AI_Copy In 1933, Jews and, to a lesser extent, political opponents of the Nazis, suffered an unprecedented loss of positions and livelihood at Germany's universities. With few exceptions, the academic elite welcomed and justified the acts of the Nazi regime, uttered no word of protest when their Jewish and liberal colleagues were dismissed, and did not stir when Jewish students were barred admission.The subject of how German scholars responded to the Nazi regime continues to be a fascinating area of scholarship. In this collection, Rabinbach and Bialas bring some of the best scholarly contributions together in one cohesive volume, to deliver a shocking conclusion: whatever diverse motives German intellectuals may have had in 1933, the image of Nazism as an alien power imposed on German universities from without was a convenient fiction.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Humanities in Nazi Germany Wolfgang Bialas and Anson Rabinbach
• 1. The Humanities in Germany after 1933: Semantic 1 Transformations and the Nazification of the Disciplines Georg Bollenbeck
• 2. “We are no longer the university of the liberal age:” 21 The Humanities and National Socialism at Heidelberg Steven P. Remy
• 3. The Goethe Society in Weimar as Showcase of Germanistik during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi Regime Ehrhard Bahr
• 4. Difficulty of Democracy: Rethinking the Political in the Philosophy of the Thirties (Gehlen, Schmitt, Heidegger) Dieter Thomä
• 5. Fascism and Hermeneutics: Gadamer and the Ambiguities of “Inner Emigration” Richard Wolin
• 6. Selected Affinities: Nietzsche and the Nazis Martin Schwab
• 7. “Images of Mankind” and the Notion of Order in Philosophical Anthropology and National Socialism: Arnold Gehlen Karl-Siegbert Rehberg
• 8. German Historical Scholarship under National Socialism Willi Oberkrome
• 9. Baroque Legacies: National Socialism’s Benjamin Jane O. Newman
• 10. Nazism, “Orientalism,” and Humanism Suzanne Marchand
• 11. Classics in the Second World War Volker Losemann
• 12. English and Romance Studies in Germany’s Third Reich Frank-Rutger Hausmann
• 13. For “Volk, Blood, and God”: The Theological Faculty at the University of Jena during the Third Reich Susannah Heschel
• 14. Nazi Historical Scholarship on the “Jewish Question” Alan E. Steinweis
• Index