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100			_aHerf, Jeffrey
245			_aReactionary modernism : technology, culture, and politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
260			_bCambridge University Press, _c1986 _aCambridge :
300			_axii, 251 p. ; _c23 cm
365			_b22.99 _c£ _d113.80
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIn a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He documents evidence of a cultural tradition he calls 'reactionary modernism' found in the writings of German engineers and of the major intellectuals of the. Weimar right: Ernst Juenger, Oswald Spengler, Werner Sombart, Hans Freyer, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. The book shows how German nationalism and later National Socialism created what Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, called the 'steel-like romanticism of the twentieth century'. By associating technology with the Germans, rather than the Jews, with beautiful form rather than the formlessness of the market, and with a strong state rather than a predominance of economic values and institutions, these right-wing intellectuals reconciled Germany's strength with its romantic soul and national identity.
650			_aEnlightenment Influence
650			_aIntellectual life
650			_aNational socialism
650			_aGerman nationalism
650			_aConservative revolution
650			_aFascism
650			_aRomanticism
650			_aWeimar Republic
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