The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich

Klemperer, Klemens von; Mosse, George L.

doi:10.2307/1846452

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“…In the past, scholars criticized aspects of the reform groups and movements as antimodern, as reactionary, seeking to return to an alleged premodern para dise (Bergmann 1970;Mosse 1981;Stern 1961). More recently, however, it has been suggested that these groups were often made up of progressive or radical indi viduals who were unable to cope with the economic and social changes accompany ing Europe's transition to modernity, par ticularly global capitalism, which in their view turned individuals into mindless bourgeois consumers trapped in a dog eatdog scramble for wealth and privil ege (Dickinson 2010).…”

Section: Reform Pedagogy Free Student Organizations Youth Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Esotericism against Capitalism?

French

2024

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This article seeks a better understanding of how Rudolf Steiner envisioned his reform pedagogy as a site of spiritual learning (for example through art, seasonal festivals, ritual drama, etc.), but also as a specific site intended to resist the encroaching influence of capitalism, materialism, and corporatism spreading in Germany following the First World War. Steiner’s ideas about education did not emerge in a vacuum. He was inspired by and connected with other forms of communist, socialist, and Lebensreform movements in his time. Yet Steiner more actively embraced and incorporated esotericism into his pedagogical project. How did his approach differ from the other anti-capitalist and anti-materialist-inspired schools that were spreading, and what role did esotericism play in terms of developing Waldorf students? This article explores these questions and contributes to a recontextualization of both Steiner and esotericism taking place in the academy.

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Section: Reform Pedagogy Free Student Organizations Youth Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Esotericism against Capitalism?

French

2024

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“…Like other fascist regimes, the Third Reich is an ideological collision of Romantic ends pursued by Progressive, bureaucratic means. What distinguishes the Nazi case from ecological thought in other fascist regimes is the relatively extensive agro-ecological principles that infused German ideology from the Romantic period through World War II, typified by the popular ecological ethnonationalist Volkisch movement (Mosse 2021;Wulf 2022). The ideology of the Third Reich is in many ways the prototypical confluence of an organicist, naturalist, and pastoral articulation of ethnonational identity (Biehl & Staudenmaier 1995;Olsen 1999).…”

Section: Nazismmentioning

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Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment

Bryant,

Farrell

2024

Annual Review of Sociology

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Sociology operates with an impoverished understanding of conservatism and the natural environment. The discipline's focus on antiregulatory and antiscience dimensions of conservative politics can obscure a more comprehensive, historically deep, and theoretically rich understanding of conservatism's connection to nature. We review and integrate sociological research with a large multidisciplinary global literature on conservative and far right environmental thought. Our analysis shows an intellectual tradition built around three commitments concerning the moral order of nature and society: naturalism, organicism, and pastoralism. Rather than being antiscientific, these traditions have drawn heavily on natural science for their authority. After tracing their history, we consider several contemporary manifestations, sometimes in ways that are counterintuitive to sociology's dominant understanding of conservatism. Conservative thought, including its far right edges, maintains a firm hold on global politics while climate change transforms the planet. To better understand these dynamics, sociology must continue to integrate work from other socioenvironmental fields. This review begins to correct this neglect and charts a path for future research at this increasingly impactful intersection.

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“…La thématique du naturel occupe une place si prépondérante dans l'idéologie nazie (Mosse 1981, Pois 1993) que celle-ci est parfois considérée comme la religion de la nature ou religion de la vie en raison de sa vénération du naturel, des lois de la nature et de l'anti-transcendant (Pois 1993). Pour cette « religion », l'homme fait partie intégrante de la nature, il obéit à la nature, il suit sa nature.…”

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L’« argument de la nature » dans le discours fasciste du 20e siècle en Allemagne, en Italie et en France

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2023

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The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich

Cited by 71 publications

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Esotericism against Capitalism?

Esotericism against Capitalism?

Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment

L’« argument de la nature » dans le discours fasciste du 20e siècle en Allemagne, en Italie et en France

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