LEADER 03875nam 22006015 450 001 9910863190003321 005 20250610110142.0 010 $a9783030540708 010 $a3030540707 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-54070-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011406789 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6324773 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-54070-8 035 $a(Perlego)3481126 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6324718 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29092765 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011406789 100 $a20200831d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJewish Exiles' Psychological Interpretations of Nazism /$fby Avihu Zakai 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (174 pages) 311 08$a9783030540692 311 08$a3030540693 327 $aIntroduction -- Wilhelm Reich and the Sexual Roots of Fascism -- A Psychological Inquiry into Totalitarianism: Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom -- Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler: Weimar Cinema as Pandora's Box -- Erich Neumann and the Western Crisis of Ethics -- Epilogue. 330 $a"Avihu Zakai's Jewish Exiles' Psychological Interpretations of Nazism provides a valuable new contribution to the scholarly debate on intellectual leadership in 'dark times.' Building on his earlier work The Pen Confronts the Sword, Zakai again addresses the larger Kulturkampf leveled against fascism and Nazism. In this concise, accessible book, he demonstrates how four exiled German-Jewish thinkers-Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm, Siegfried Kracauer, and Erich Neumann-confronted Nazism through psychological inquiry and how their interpretations help us to make sense of the cultural response to totalitarianism." - Mark Clark, Kenneth Asbury Professor of History, The University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA This book examines works of four German-Jewish scholars who, in their places of exile, sought to probe the pathology of the Nazi mind: Wilhelm Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom (1941), Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (1947), and Erich Neumann's Depth Psychology and a New Ethic (1949). While scholars have examined these authors' individual legacies, no comparative analysis of their shared concerns has yet been undertaken, nor have the content and form of their psychological inquiries into Nazism been seriously and systematically analyzed. Yet, the sense of urgency in their works calls for attention. They all took up their pens to counter Nazi barbarism, believing, like the English jurist and judge Sir William Blackstone, who wrote in 1753 - scribere est agere ("to write is to act"). Avihu Zakai is Emeritus Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also the author, most recently, of The Pen Confronts the Sword: Exiled German Scholars Challenge Nazism (2018). . 606 $aReligion 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945 606 $aPsychoanalysis 606 $aReligion 606 $aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust 606 $aPsychoanalysis 615 0$aReligion. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis. 615 14$aReligion. 615 24$aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust. 615 24$aPsychoanalysis. 676 $a155.8943 676 $a150.195 700 $aZakai$b Avihu$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0947518 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910863190003321 996 $aJewish Exiles? Psychological Interpretations of Nazism$94166788 997 $aUNINA