Hitler and the Germans / / edited with an introduction by Ellis Sandoz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821149603321
• Autore: Voegelin Eric <1901-1985.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baton Rouge, : Louisiana State University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0-8262-6388-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 285 pages)
• Collana: The collected works of Eric Voegelin ; ; v.31
• Altri autori (Persone): SandozEllis <1931->; WeissGilbert
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetti: History - Philosophy; Philosophy; Political science - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Editors' Introductions""; ""I. Eric Voegelin's "Hitler and the Germans" Lectures in the Context of the Germans' Treatment of Their Nazi Past""; ""II. The Philosophical Context of the "Hitler and the Germans" Lectures""; ""Editors' Note""; ""contents""; ""Part I Descent into the Abyss""; ""1. Central Experiential Problem: Hitler's Rise to Power""; ""2. The Experiential Occasion of the Lectures: Schramm's "Anatomy of a Dictator"""; ""3. The Stupidity of a Whole People: The "Buttermelcher Syndrome"""; ""4. Present-day German Laxity toward Former Nazis""; ""5. The Cliché of the "Unmastered Past" versus the "Presence under God"" """6. The Cliché of "Collective Guilt" and the Representation of a Society""; ""7. Clichés of "State" and "Democracy"""; ""8. Philosophical and Biblical Understanding of Humanity and of Radical Stupidity""; ""9. Karl Kraus's Dritte Walpurgisnacht on Lies and Propaganda""; ""10. Robert Musil on Simple and Intelligent Stupidity""; ""11. Carl Amery on Bourgeois "Propriety" as Secondary Virtue Eclipsing Primary Virtues""; ""12. Criminal Stupidity and Loss of Experience of Reality in a Disordered Society""; ""13. Schramm's Conceptual and Stylistic Incomprehension of Hitler"" ""14. Hitler's "Aura"""; ""15. Hitler and Christianity""; ""16. Hitler's Views on Religion""; ""17. Hitler and Women""; ""18. Hitler and His Entourage""; ""19. Hitler and "The Art of Reading"""; ""20. Hitler's Social ; Darwinism""; ""21. Conclusion: Schramm's Spiritual Illiteracy Contrasted with Alan Bullock's Diagnosis of Hitler""; ""22. Lack of a Theoretical Articulation of "Church"""; ""23. Intellectual and Spiritual Decline in the German Churches""; ""24. Evangelical Church's Participation in Nationalistic- Völkisch Ideology"" ""25. Theological Opinions Regarding Race Laws""; ""26. Anti-Semitic Tendencies in Land Bishop Wurm and Pastor Niemöller""; ""27. Anti-Semitic Residues in Present- day Evangelical Church""; ""28. Theoretical Inquiry into Romans 13""; ""29. Layout of the "Hitler and the Germans" Lectures""; ""30. Difference between Catholic and Evangelical Attitudes toward Nazism""; ""31. Dehumanized Response of Catholic Church to State Authority and to Persecution of Those outside the Church""; ""32. Karl Kraus on Concentration Camp Life""""33. Catholic Resistance to Dehumanization: Alfred Delp""; ""34. "Guidelines" for German Clerics and Theologians""; ""35. Tension between the Church as Social Institution and as Community of Universal Humanity under Christ""; ""36. Advances and Regressions in Differentiation of Knowledge of the Presence under God""; ""37. The Church's Representation of Universal Humanity: Its Duty and Its Failure""; ""38. The Rechtsstaat as a Specifically German Concept""; ""39. Conflict between Hierarchical Legal Systems and Separation of Powers, as in the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz)""
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation