The politics of cultural despair
Subtitle: a study in the rise of the Germanic ideology
By: Fritz Stern
Series: A Doubleday Anchor Book, A436; Doubleday anchor books -- A436.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Nationalism; National socialism; Civilization; Intellectual life; History; Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-412) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Paul de Lagarde and a Germanic religion: The critic as academician; title: The idealism of antimodernity; title: The Germanic religion; title: The Germanic nation; title: The corruption of German education; title: The prophet remembered; title: pt. 2. Julius Langbehn and Germanic irrationalism: The critic as failure; title: Art and the revolt against modernity; title: Art, politics, and the heroic folk; title: Langbehn and the crisis of the 1890s; title: pt. 3. Moeller van den Brucik and the Third Reich: The critic as exile; title: The esthete's turn to politics; title: The conscience of the right; title: Towards the Third Reich; title: Conclusion: from idealism to nihilism.