Nazi Germany and the humanities
By: Wolfgang Bialas and Anson Rabinbach, editors.
Contributors: Bialas, Wolfgang, 1954-.; Rabinbach, Anson.
Publisher: Oneworld; Brand: Oneworld Publications; Oneworld Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781851684687
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; National socialism and education -- Germany.
Description: "The subject of how German scholars responded to the Nazi regime has seen a resurgence of interest in recent years. In this collection, Rabinbach and Bialas bring some of the most important and original scholarly contributions together in one cohesive volume, to deliver a surprising 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The humanities in Germany after 1933 : semantic transformations and the nazification of the disciplines / Georg Bollenbeck; title: "We are no longer the university of the liberal age" : the humanities and national socialism at Heidelberg / Steven P. Remy; title: The Goethe Society in Weimar as showcase of Germanistik during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi regime / Ehrhard Bahr; title: Difficulty of democracy : rethinking the political in the philosophy of the Thirties (Gehlen, Schmitt, Heidegger) / Dieter Thomä; title: Fascism and hermeneutics : Gadamer and the ambiguities of "inner emigration" / Richard Wolin; title: Selected affinities : Nietzsche and the Nazis / Martin Schwab; title: "Images of mankind" and the notion of order in philosophical anthropology and national socialism : Arnold Gehlen / Karl-Siegbert Rehberg; title: German historical scholarship under national socialism / Willi Oberkrome; title: Baroque legacies : national socialism's Benjamin / Jane O. Newman; title: Nazism, "orientalism", and humanism / Suzanne Marchand; title: Classics in the Second World War / Volker Losemann; title: English and romance studies in Germany's Third Reich / Frank-Rutger Hausmann; title: For "Volk, blood, and God" : the theological faculty at the University of Jena during the Third Reich / Susannah Heschel; title: Nazi historical scholarship on the "Jewish question" / Alan E. Steinweis.