Inhumanities Nazi interpretations of western culture
Inhumanities is an unprecedented account of the ways Nazi Germany manipulated and mobilized European literature, philosophy, painting, sculpture and music in support of its ideological ends. David B. Dennis shows how, based on belief that the Third Reich represented the culmination of Western civili...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Foundations of Nazi cultural history.
- The "Germanic" origins of western culture
- Vox volkish
- The western tradition as political and patriotic
- The western tradition as anti-semitic
- The archenemy incarnate
- Blind to the light.
- Classicism romanticized
- Intolerance toward enlightenment
- Forging steel romanticism
- Romantic music as "our greatest legacy"
- Modern dilemmas.
- Realist paradox and expressionist confusion
- Nordic existentialists and volkish founders
- Music after Wagner
- "Holy" war and Weimar "crisis"
- Heralds of the front experience
- Weimar culture wars 1: defending German spirit from "Circumcision"
- Weimar culture wars 2: combatting "degeneracy"
- Nazi "solutions"
- "Honor your German masters"
- The Nazi "renaissance"
- Kultur at war