Inhumanities
Subtitle: Nazi interpretations of western culture
By: David B. Denn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 541
ISBN-13: 9781107020498
Subjects: Nazi propaganda; Völkischer Beobachter (Munich, Germany : 1920); Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei; Party work; Fascism and culture; Civilization; Western Civilization; World War, 1939-1945; Press and politics; Propaganda; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foundations of Nazi cultural history.; title: The "Germanic" origins of western culture; title: Vox volkish; title: The western tradition as political and patriotic; title: The western tradition as anti-semitic; title: The archenemy incarnate; title: Blind to the light.; title: Classicism romanticized; title: Intolerance toward enlightenment; title: Forging steel romanticism; title: Romantic music as "our greatest legacy"; title: Modern dilemmas.; title: Realist paradox and expressionist confusion; title: Nordic existentialists and volkish founders; title: Music after Wagner; title: "Holy" war and Weimar "crisis"; title: Heralds of the front experience; title: Weimar culture wars 1: defending German spirit from "Circumcision"; title: Weimar culture wars 2: combatting "degeneracy"; title: Nazi "solutions"; title: "Honor your German masters"; title: The Nazi "renaissance"; title: Kultur at war.