Revisiting the "Nazi occult" : histories, realities, legacies

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Label

Revisiting the "Nazi occult" : histories, realities, legacies

Title remainder

histories, realities, legacies

Statement of responsibility

edited by Monica Black and Eric Kurlander

Contributor

• Kurlander, Eric, 1973-
• Black, Monica, 1968-

Editor

• Black, Monica, 1968-
• Kurlander, Eric, 1973-

Subject

• Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
• Mythology, Germanic
• National socialism and occultism
• Occultism -- Germany -- History
• Secret societies -- Germany

Language

eng

Summary

Scholars have debated the role of the occult in Nazism since it first appeared on the German political landscape in the 1920s. After 1945, a consensus held that occultism - an ostensibly anti-modern, irrational blend of pseudo-religious and -scientific practices and ideas - had directly facilitated Nazism's rise. More recently, scholarly debate has denied the occult a role in shaping the Third Reich, emphasizing the Nazis' hostility to esoteric religion and alternative forms of knowledge. Bringing together cutting-edge scholarship on the topic, this volume calls for a fundamental reappraisal of these positions. The book is divided into three chronological sections. The first, on the period 1890 to 1933, looks at the esoteric philosophies and occult movements that influenced both the leaders of the Nazi movement and ordinary Germans who became its adherents. The second, on the Third Reich in power, explores how the occult and alternative religious belief informed Nazism as an ideological, political, and cultural system. The third looks at Nazism's occult legacies. In emphasizing both continuities and disjunctures, this book promises to re-open and re-energize debate on the occult roots and legacies of Nazism, and with it our understanding of German cultural and intellectual history over the past century. Contributors: Monica Black; Jeff Hayton; Oded Heilbronner; Eric Kurlander; Fabian Link and J. Laurence Hare; Anna Lux; Perry Myers; John Ondrovcik; Michael E. O'Sullivan; Jared Poley; Uwe Schellinger, Andreas Anton, and Michael T. Schetsche; Peter Staudenmaier. Monica Black is Associate Professor and Associate Head of the Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Eric Kurlander is Professor of Modern European History at Stetson University

Member of

• German history in context

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

130.943/09043

Index

index present

LC call number

DD256.5

LC item number

.R4355 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

German history in context