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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Anson Rabinbach is a specialist in modern European history with an emphasis on intellectual and cultural history. He has published extensively on Nazi Germany, Austria, and European thought in the nineteenth and twentieth century. He is currently director of European Cultural Studies at Princeton University. Dr. Wolfgang Bialas is a specialist in 19th and 20th century German culture, German literature, intellectual history and film. He is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Al Ain University, United Arab Emirates University. Klappentext In 1933, Jews, and to a lesser extent, political opponents of the Nazis, suffered an unprecedented loss of positions and livelihood at Germany’s universities. Of the 1,700 faculty members who lost their jobs, eighty percent were removed on racial grounds. With few exceptions, the academic elite welcomed and justified the acts of the Nazi regime, uttered no word of protest when their Jewish and liberal colleagues were dismissed, and did not stir when Jewish students were barred admission. Why did the ‘Nazification’ of German universities encounter so little resistance? The subject of how German scholars responded to the Nazi regime has seen a resurgence of scholarship in recent years. In this collection, Rabinbach and Bialas bring some of the most important and original scholarly contributions together in one cohesive volume, to deliver a surprising conclusion: whatever diverse motives German intellectuals may have had in 1933, the image of Nazism as an alien power imposed on German universities from without was a convenient fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: The Humanities in Nazi Germany Wolfgang Bialas and Anson Rabinbach Chapter I: Georg Bollenbeck The Humanities in Germany after 1933: Semantic Transformations and the Nazification of the Disciplines Chapter II Steven P. Remy "We are no longer the university of the liberal age:" The Humanities and National Socialism at Heidelberg Chapter III Erhard Bahr The Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar as Showcase of Germanistik during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi Regime Chapter IV Dieter Thomä Difficulty of Democracy Rethinking the Political in the Philosophy of the Thirties (Gehlen, Schmitt, Heidegger) Chapter V Richard Wolin Fascism and Hermeneutics: Gadamer and the Ambiguities of "Inner Emigration" Chapter VI Martin Schwab Nietzsche's Nazi Affinities Chapter VII Karl-Siegbert Rehberg Arnold Gehlen: "Images of mankind" and the idea of order in Philosophical Anthropology Chapter VIII Willi Oberkrome German Historical Scholarship under National Socialism Chapter IX Jane O. Newman Baroque Studies: The Legacy of Walter Benjamin in the Third Reich Chapter X Susanne Marchand Nazism, 'Orientalism' and Humanism Chapter XI Frank-Rutger Hausmann, English and American Studies In Nazi Germany Chapter XII Volker Losemann Classics in the Second World War Chapter XIII Susannah Heschel The Theological Faculty at the University of Jena as "a Stronghold of National Socialism" Chapter XIV Alan E. Steinweis Nazi Historical Scholarship on the "Jewish Question" ...
