The Philosophy of Life and Death [electronic resource] : Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics /
Lebovic, Nitzan.author.
Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and political volatility of the Weimar era.
Koebner Institute, 2019
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: Where It All Began -- From the Beginning of Life to the End of the World -- Living Experience, Expression, and Immediacy between 1895 and 1915 -- Ecstasy and Antihistoricism: Klages, Benjamin, Baeumler, 1914-1926 -- Alternative Subject: Anti-Freudianism and Charakterologie,1919-1929 -- Lebensphilosophie: Conservative Revolution and the Cult of Life -- Lebensphilosophie and Biopolitics: A Discourse of Biological Forms.
Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and political volatility of the Weimar era.
Klages, Ludwig, 1872-1956
Europe, Central—History.
Philosophy.
Social history.
World War, 1939-1945.
Europe—History.
Civilization—History.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
History of Philosophy.
Social History.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
European History.
Cultural History.