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The Politics of Cultural Despair

A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology

Fritz R. Stern (Author)

Available worldwide

Paperback, 367 pages
ISBN: 9780520026261
October 1974
$34.95, £24.95

Preface
Introduction

I. Paul de Lagarde and a Germanic Region
1. The Critic as Academician
2. The Idealism of Antimodernity
3. The Germanic Religion
4. The Germanic Nation
5. The Corruption of German Education
6. The Prophet Remembered

II. Julius Langbehn and Germanic Irrationalism
7. The Critic as a Failure
8. Art and the Revolt against Modernity
9. Art, Politics, and the Heroic Folk
10. Langbehm and the Crisis of the 1890's

III. Moeller van den Bruck and the Third Reich
11. The Critic as Exile
12. The Esthete's Turn to Politics
13. The Conscience of the Right
14. Toward the Third Reich

Conclusion: From Idealism to Nihilism
Notes
Acknowledgment
Bibliography
Index

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