Hitler and the Germans

Eric Voegelin, Detlev Clemens, Brendan Purcell , Detlev Clemens

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Missouri University Press
12 March 2003

History; European history; Second World War; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Cultural studies; Fascism & Nazism

Between 1933 and 1938, Eric Voegelin published four books that expressly stated his opposition to the increasingly powerful Hitler regime. As a result, he was forced to leave his homeland in 1938. Twenty years later, he returned to Germany as a professor of political science at Ludwig-Maximilian University. Voegelin's homecoming allowed him the opportunity to voice once again his opinions on the Nazi regime and its aftermath. In 1964 at the University of Munich, Voegelin gave a series of memorable lectures on what he considered """"the central German experiential problem"""" of his time: Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reasons for it, and its consequences for post-Nazi Germany. For Voegelin, these questions demanded a scrutiny of the mentality of individual Germans and of the order of German society during and after the Nazi period. """"Hitler and the Germans"""" offers Voegelin's most extensive and detailed critique of the Hitler era. Voegelin interprets this era in terms of the basic diagnostic tools provided by the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Judeo-Christian culture, and contemporary German-language writers like Heimito von Doderer, Karl Kraus, Thomas Mann and Robert Musil. His inquiry uncovers a historiography that was substantially unhistoric: a German Evangelical Church that misinterpreted the Gospel, a German Catholic Church that denied universal humanity, and a legal process enmeshed in criminal homicide.

By: Eric Voegelin, Brendan Purcell
Translated by: Detlev Clemens, Brendan Purcell, Detlev Clemens
Imprint: Missouri University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: v. 31
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780826214669
ISBN 10: 0826214665
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 12 March 2003
Recommended Age: From 18 to 100 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Hitler and the Germans

[In Hitler and the Germans] the reader feels the academic hall come to life with Voegelin's eloquence and the profundity of his mind. Voegelin speaks with passion and deadly irony....Hitler and the Germans is not simply a scholarly historical analysis of an extremely unpleasant event. Voegelin writes as a philosophic German to philosophic Germans, because he takes them seriously....[He] has brilliantly illuminated the depths and meaning of that ideology and tyranny for our abiding benefit in thought and action. - Perspectives on Political Science