The Politics of Cultural Despair

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ISBN: 9780520026261 | 0520026268
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/1/1974

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This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair.

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Preface
Introduction
Paul de Lagarde and a Germanic Region
The Critic as Academician
The Idealism of Antimodernity
The Germanic Religion
The Germanic Nation
The Corruption of German Education
The Prophet Remembered
Julius Langbehn and Germanic Irrationalism
The Critic as a Failure
Art and the Revolt Against Modernity
Art, Politics, and the Heroic Folk
Langbehm and the Crisis of the 1890's
Moeller van den Bruck and the Third Reich
The Critic as Exile
The Esthete's Turn to Politics
The Conscience of the Right
Toward the Third Reich
Conclusion: From Idealism to Nihilism
Notes
Acknowledgment
Bibliography
Index
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