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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Talcott Parsons's Sociology of National Socialism -- The Collection of Texts -- 1. Nazis Destroy Learning, Challenge Religion -- 2. Academic Freedom (1939) -- 3. Memorandum: The Development of Groups and Organizations Amenable to Use Against American Institutions and Foreign Policy and Possible Measures of Prevention -- 4. The Sociology of Modern Anti-Semitism -- 5. New Dark Ages Seen If Nazis Should Win -- 6. Max Weber and the Contemporary Political Crisis -- 7. Sociological Reflections on the United States in Relation to the European War -- 8. Some Sociological Aspects of the Fascist Movements -- 9. National Socialism and the German People -- 10. Democracy and Social Structure in Pre-Nazi Germany -- 11. Propaganda and Social Control -- 12. Racial and Religious Differences as Factors in Group Tensions -- 13. The Problem of Controlled Institutional Change* An Essay in Applied Social Science -- 14. Certain Primary Sources and Patterns of Aggression in the Social Structure of the Western World -- Index

"Because such evil lay at the heart of the National Socialist movement, its overwhelming rhetoric has often led to its negative characterization as propaganda. As Randall Bytwerk points out, however, that association was anything but negative in the minds of the leaders of the National Socialist movement. In their view, the clear, simplistic, and even one-sided presentation of information was necessary to effectively mobilize all elements of the German population to the National Socialist program." "Gathered here are thirteen of the key speeches of this historically significant movement, including Hitler's announcement of the party's reestablishment in 1925 following the unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch, four addresses by Joseph Goebbels, the 1938 Kristallnacht speech by Julius Streicher, and four speeches drafted as models for party leaders' use on various public occasions." "Landmark Speeches of National Socialism is an important volume for students of rhetoric, World War II, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust."--Jacket

chapter 1 Max Scheler's Critique and Assessment of Freud's Theory of Libido (1925) -- chapter 2 High-Mindedness (1931) -- chapter 3 The Total State and Civilisation (1933) -- chapter 4 What Is Politics About? (1933) -- chapter 5 Heidegger and National Socialism (1934) -- chapter 6 On Human Equality (1934) -- chapter 7 Othmar Spann's Theory of Totality (1934) -- chapter 8 The Abuse of the Vital (1934) -- chapter 9 Democracy and Reality (1935) -- chapter 10 An Essay on Hatred (1935) -- chapter 11 The Humanitarian versus the Religious Attitude (1944) -- chapter 12 Contemporary British Philosophy and Its Political Aspects (1959) -- chapter 13 Human Dignity Today (1960) -- chapter 14 Dignity (1969) -- chapter 15 The Ghost of the Naturalistic Fallacy (1962) -- chapter 16 ? Defence of Intrinsicalism against 'Situation Ethics' (1970) -- chapter 17 The Moral Emphasis: Obligation, Practice, and Virtue.

Zusammenfassung: La 4ème de couv. indique :"Auteur de livres célèbres sur les guerres mondiales, civiles et idéologiques du XXe siècle, Ernst Nolte tente ici de caractériser et de définir les fondements historiques du national-socialisme. Il démontre que ni Hitler ni son mouvement ne peuvent être pensés comme un phénomène simplement "produit" par les circonstances, même exceptionnelles, au sein desquelles ils sont apparus et ont pu prendre les aspects que nous leur connaissons. Selon Nolte, le plus grand danger historiographique consiste à réinterpréter les circonstances de départ à la lumière de leur point d'arrivée. Il renverse l'analyse et tourne son attention vers les racines de tous les thèmes idéologiques et historico-politiques qui se sont nourris, avec une efficacité et une virulence extraordinaires, de ces circonstances. La diffusion dans la société (pas uniquement allemande) de l'antisémitisme, du darwinisme social, du nationalisme à base raciale et du bolchevisme ; leur nature idéologique ; leur déformation ultérieure dans l'idéologie de Mein Kampf, etc : tels sont les grands thèmes d'un ouvrage où se déploie l'analyse noltienne des fondements du national-socialisme