Joseph W Bendersky
Biographic Data
| ID | 971448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph W Bendersky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph W |
| FAMILY NAME | Bendersky |
| SIGNATURE | BENDERSKY J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
China’s Schmitt Fever: Instrumentalization of Carl Schmitt by Chinese Ideological Elites
A Moral Core in a Political Realist: A Centennial Reappraisal of Carl Schmitt’s
Little History”: The Crisis in U.S. Academic History
A keynote speaker at the German Studies Association Conference in October 2013 was the renowned historian David Blackbourn, who—together with Geoff Eley—had originally made his reputation by challenging the well-entrenched Sonderweg interpretation of the course of modern German historical development. His keynote address, however, had the far less intellectually lofty, and certainly more humorous, title “Honey, I Shrunk German History.”1
Courageous Confrontations with the Realities of the Lebenswelt
George David Schwab, Odyssey of a Child Survivor: From Latvia through the Camps to the United States, 2021. Pp. 299
On the Road to Damascus: The Telos Engagement with Carl Schmitt
We must recognize there is always a threat, always an enemy.... Because there is no such thing as universal peace.... The central function of government is the creation and enforcement of security.—Jon Meacham, “A Case for Optimistic Stoicism”1
Schmitt’s Diaries
Written between 1912 and 1979, Carl Schmitt’s diaries (published and unpublished) rank among the most illuminating documentary sources of the era. This chapter argues that the published diaries have significantly transformed perceptions of his personality, motivations, and sentiments as well as of his thoughts on crucial intellectual and political questions related to 20th century Germany. Drawing extensively on these primary sources, the chapter…
Victimized Memory and Gendered Reality among the Ruins
In its conceptualization, research, and nuanced analyses, this book goes far beyond being merely yet another monographic contribution to the extensive literature on postwar Germany and Jewish Holocaust survivors. Focusing on the “interactions, encounters, and confrontations” (5) among Jewish survivors and refugees, defeated Germans, and occupying forces, Atina Grossmann provides a gender-oriented social history replete with contradictions, strugg…
Dissension in the Face of the Holocaust: The 1941 American Debate over Antisemitism
In 1941, the Council for Democracy sponsored a debate on the causes and appropriate responses to antisemitism. The Council consisted of intellectuals and community leaders representing a spectrum of disciplinary and religious backgrounds. Divided in their assessment of the problem and the most effective way to explain it to the American public, Council members ultimately agreed not to emphasize the role of antisemitism in Nazi ideology. Their con…
Love, Law, and War: Carl Schmitt's Angst
For decades an array of scholars read Carl Schmitt's publications not only to understand his concepts and arguments but also to extrapolate from them the essence of his character and motivation. What was thereby surmised about the man was then, in turn, utilized in interpreting those very works. The result has been a half-century of diametrically opposed perspectives and claims whose contradictory nature greatly exceeded anything found among the …
Panic: The impact of Le Bon's crowd psychology on U.S. military thought
The controversial crowd psychology of Gustave Le Bon has been both praised as an incisive contribution to social theory and also condemned as a doctrine of irrationality and mass manipulation associated with fascism. New archival documentation now demonstrates that Le Bon exercised significant influence on U.S. military thinking and practice through World War II. Army writings and officer training on morale, leadership, and battlefield psychology…
From Cowards and Subversives to Aggressors and Questionable Allies: US Army Perceptions of Zionism since World War I
For most of the twentieth century, the attitudes and policies of the US army were consistently anti-Zionist. From World War I into the 1950s, army anti-Zionism was inextricably interrelated with a mutually reinforcing anti-Semitism that ranged from political and ethnic bias to extremist versions of biological racial and conspiratorial thinking. Army officers perceived Zionist objectives in the Middle East as detrimental to America's national inte…
Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Journal Article Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe Get access Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe. By Rigg Bryan Mark. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xviii, 284 pp. $26.00, isbn0-300-10448-0.) Joseph W. Bendersky Joseph W. Bendersky Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRichmond, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
"The "Jewish Threat: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army
Journal Article The “Jewish Threat”: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army Get access Bendersky Joseph W.The “Jewish Threat”: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army 2000New York Basic Booksxviii539$30.00, ISBN 0-465-00617-5. Stephen J. Whitfield Stephen J. Whitfield Brandeis University, Waltham Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 4, March 2002, Pages…
"The "Jewish Threat: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army
Shocking revelations of the US Army's history of anti-Semitism throughout the 20th century that expose pervasive suspicion and hatred of the Jews among the highest levels of the American military. . While the pervasive anti-Semitism of ordinary Germans in the first half of the twentieth century has received much attention lately, very little has been written about America's own history of anti-Semitism. In this shocking book, Joseph Bendersky arg…
Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law: The Theory and Practice of Weimar Constitutionalism
Schmitt and Hobbes
Carl Schmitt, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol, tr. by George Schwab and Erna Hilfstein (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), 121 + xxxipp
The Disappearance of Blonds: "Immigration, Race and the Reemergence of "Thinking White
I listened in amazement as the man related a disturbing tale of his recent trip to New York. Indeed, I hardly recognized the city and its people I thought I knew so well. Yet, what he said sounded so eerily familiar. Above all, it was his specific emphasis on “blondness” and his self-conscious identity of its centrality that particularly captured my attention and shook my historical memory. Although this average well educated professional from an…
Entartetes Recht: Rechtslehren und Kronjuristen im Dritten Reich.
The Other God That Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism.
Why did some of the best and brightest of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their radical contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did they play in the Third Reich? How did their experience of totalitarianism lead them to recast their social and political thought? This biography of Hans Freyer, a prominent German sociologist and political ideolog…
Carl Schmitt as Occasio
Klaus Hansen and Hans Lietzmann eds., Carl Schmitt und die Liberalismuskritik (Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1988)
Psychohistory before Hitler: Early military analyses of German national psychology
As part of a grandiose post-World War I psychological project to predict the behavior of nations, the U.S. Military Intelligence Division (MID) utilized racial and social psychological theories to explain an alleged problematic German national character. Though unsuccessful, this project has major significance in the history of psychohistory. For the newly discovered MID files reveal that ideas, attitudes, and biases many psychohistorians subsequ…
Carl Schmitt at Nuremberg
Carl Schmitt was arrested by the Russians in Berlin in April 1945, interrogated and released. In September 1945 he was arrested by the Americans and held in internment camps until March 1947, when he was brought to Nuremberg as a potential defendant in the War Crimes Trials. Although he was released in a matter of weeks without being charged, this episode has created further suspicion about Schmitt's role in the Third Reich. Without oversimplifyi…
Carl Schmitt and the Conservative Revolution
Carl Schmitt has been depicted long and inaccurately as one of Weimar's foremost conservative revolutionaries. In the early literature he was not merely categorized as a thinker belonging to that “motley” group of writers associated with the conservative revolution; he was identified directly with neo-romanticism, irrationalism, völkisch thinking, and the call for a vague “national revolution.” He was associated with Oswald Spengler, Moeller van …
Carl Schmitt: Theorist for the Reich
Basing his work on the writings of Schmitt and his contemporaries, extensive new archival documentation, and parts of Schmitt's personal papers, Professor Bendersky uses Schmitt's public career as a framework for re-evaluating his contributions to political and legal theory. This book establishes that Schmitt's late Weimar writings were directed at preventing rather than encouraging the Nazi acquisition of power. Originally published in 1983. The…
Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
"The "Jewish Threat: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army
Shocking revelations of the US Army's history of anti-Semitism throughout the 20th century that expose pervasive suspicion and hatred of the Jews among the highest levels of the American military. . While the pervasive anti-Semitism of ordinary Germans in the first half of the twentieth century has received much attention lately, very little has been written about America's own history of anti-Semitism. In this shocking book, Joseph Bendersky arg…
Panic: The impact of Le Bon's crowd psychology on U.S. military thought
The controversial crowd psychology of Gustave Le Bon has been both praised as an incisive contribution to social theory and also condemned as a doctrine of irrationality and mass manipulation associated with fascism. New archival documentation now demonstrates that Le Bon exercised significant influence on U.S. military thinking and practice through World War II. Army writings and officer training on morale, leadership, and battlefield psychology…
Carl Schmitt at Nuremberg
Carl Schmitt was arrested by the Russians in Berlin in April 1945, interrogated and released. In September 1945 he was arrested by the Americans and held in internment camps until March 1947, when he was brought to Nuremberg as a potential defendant in the War Crimes Trials. Although he was released in a matter of weeks without being charged, this episode has created further suspicion about Schmitt's role in the Third Reich. Without oversimplifyi…
Carl Schmitt and the Conservative Revolution
Carl Schmitt has been depicted long and inaccurately as one of Weimar's foremost conservative revolutionaries. In the early literature he was not merely categorized as a thinker belonging to that “motley” group of writers associated with the conservative revolution; he was identified directly with neo-romanticism, irrationalism, völkisch thinking, and the call for a vague “national revolution.” He was associated with Oswald Spengler, Moeller van …
The Expendable Kronjurist: Carl Schmitt and National Socialism, 1933-36
On the Road to Damascus: The Telos Engagement with Carl Schmitt
We must recognize there is always a threat, always an enemy.... Because there is no such thing as universal peace.... The central function of government is the creation and enforcement of security.—Jon Meacham, “A Case for Optimistic Stoicism”1
From Cowards and Subversives to Aggressors and Questionable Allies: US Army Perceptions of Zionism since World War I
For most of the twentieth century, the attitudes and policies of the US army were consistently anti-Zionist. From World War I into the 1950s, army anti-Zionism was inextricably interrelated with a mutually reinforcing anti-Semitism that ranged from political and ethnic bias to extremist versions of biological racial and conspiratorial thinking. Army officers perceived Zionist objectives in the Middle East as detrimental to America's national inte…
The Disappearance of Blonds: "Immigration, Race and the Reemergence of "Thinking White
I listened in amazement as the man related a disturbing tale of his recent trip to New York. Indeed, I hardly recognized the city and its people I thought I knew so well. Yet, what he said sounded so eerily familiar. Above all, it was his specific emphasis on “blondness” and his self-conscious identity of its centrality that particularly captured my attention and shook my historical memory. Although this average well educated professional from an…
The Expendable Kronjurist: Carl Schmitt and National Socialism, 1933-36
Carl Schmitt: Theorist for the Reich
Carl Schmitt: Theorist for the Reich
Basing his work on the writings of Schmitt and his contemporaries, extensive new archival documentation, and parts of Schmitt's personal papers, Professor Bendersky uses Schmitt's public career as a framework for re-evaluating his contributions to political and legal theory. This book establishes that Schmitt's late Weimar writings were directed at preventing rather than encouraging the Nazi acquisition of power. Originally published in 1983. The…
Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
Carl Schmitt at Nuremberg
Carl Schmitt was arrested by the Russians in Berlin in April 1945, interrogated and released. In September 1945 he was arrested by the Americans and held in internment camps until March 1947, when he was brought to Nuremberg as a potential defendant in the War Crimes Trials. Although he was released in a matter of weeks without being charged, this episode has created further suspicion about Schmitt's role in the Third Reich. Without oversimplifyi…
Carl Schmitt and the Conservative Revolution
Carl Schmitt has been depicted long and inaccurately as one of Weimar's foremost conservative revolutionaries. In the early literature he was not merely categorized as a thinker belonging to that “motley” group of writers associated with the conservative revolution; he was identified directly with neo-romanticism, irrationalism, völkisch thinking, and the call for a vague “national revolution.” He was associated with Oswald Spengler, Moeller van …
Carl Schmitt as Occasio
Klaus Hansen and Hans Lietzmann eds., Carl Schmitt und die Liberalismuskritik (Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1988)
Psychohistory before Hitler: Early military analyses of German national psychology
As part of a grandiose post-World War I psychological project to predict the behavior of nations, the U.S. Military Intelligence Division (MID) utilized racial and social psychological theories to explain an alleged problematic German national character. Though unsuccessful, this project has major significance in the history of psychohistory. For the newly discovered MID files reveal that ideas, attitudes, and biases many psychohistorians subsequ…
Entartetes Recht: Rechtslehren und Kronjuristen im Dritten Reich.
The Other God That Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism.
Why did some of the best and brightest of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their radical contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did they play in the Third Reich? How did their experience of totalitarianism lead them to recast their social and political thought? This biography of Hans Freyer, a prominent German sociologist and political ideolog…
The Disappearance of Blonds: "Immigration, Race and the Reemergence of "Thinking White
I listened in amazement as the man related a disturbing tale of his recent trip to New York. Indeed, I hardly recognized the city and its people I thought I knew so well. Yet, what he said sounded so eerily familiar. Above all, it was his specific emphasis on “blondness” and his self-conscious identity of its centrality that particularly captured my attention and shook my historical memory. Although this average well educated professional from an…
Schmitt and Hobbes
Carl Schmitt, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol, tr. by George Schwab and Erna Hilfstein (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), 121 + xxxipp
Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law: The Theory and Practice of Weimar Constitutionalism
"The "Jewish Threat: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army
Shocking revelations of the US Army's history of anti-Semitism throughout the 20th century that expose pervasive suspicion and hatred of the Jews among the highest levels of the American military. . While the pervasive anti-Semitism of ordinary Germans in the first half of the twentieth century has received much attention lately, very little has been written about America's own history of anti-Semitism. In this shocking book, Joseph Bendersky arg…
"The "Jewish Threat: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army
Journal Article The “Jewish Threat”: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army Get access Bendersky Joseph W.The “Jewish Threat”: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army 2000New York Basic Booksxviii539$30.00, ISBN 0-465-00617-5. Stephen J. Whitfield Stephen J. Whitfield Brandeis University, Waltham Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 4, March 2002, Pages…
From Cowards and Subversives to Aggressors and Questionable Allies: US Army Perceptions of Zionism since World War I
For most of the twentieth century, the attitudes and policies of the US army were consistently anti-Zionist. From World War I into the 1950s, army anti-Zionism was inextricably interrelated with a mutually reinforcing anti-Semitism that ranged from political and ethnic bias to extremist versions of biological racial and conspiratorial thinking. Army officers perceived Zionist objectives in the Middle East as detrimental to America's national inte…
Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Journal Article Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe Get access Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe. By Rigg Bryan Mark. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xviii, 284 pp. $26.00, isbn0-300-10448-0.) Joseph W. Bendersky Joseph W. Bendersky Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRichmond, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Panic: The impact of Le Bon's crowd psychology on U.S. military thought
The controversial crowd psychology of Gustave Le Bon has been both praised as an incisive contribution to social theory and also condemned as a doctrine of irrationality and mass manipulation associated with fascism. New archival documentation now demonstrates that Le Bon exercised significant influence on U.S. military thinking and practice through World War II. Army writings and officer training on morale, leadership, and battlefield psychology…
Love, Law, and War: Carl Schmitt's Angst
For decades an array of scholars read Carl Schmitt's publications not only to understand his concepts and arguments but also to extrapolate from them the essence of his character and motivation. What was thereby surmised about the man was then, in turn, utilized in interpreting those very works. The result has been a half-century of diametrically opposed perspectives and claims whose contradictory nature greatly exceeded anything found among the …
Dissension in the Face of the Holocaust: The 1941 American Debate over Antisemitism
In 1941, the Council for Democracy sponsored a debate on the causes and appropriate responses to antisemitism. The Council consisted of intellectuals and community leaders representing a spectrum of disciplinary and religious backgrounds. Divided in their assessment of the problem and the most effective way to explain it to the American public, Council members ultimately agreed not to emphasize the role of antisemitism in Nazi ideology. Their con…
Victimized Memory and Gendered Reality among the Ruins
In its conceptualization, research, and nuanced analyses, this book goes far beyond being merely yet another monographic contribution to the extensive literature on postwar Germany and Jewish Holocaust survivors. Focusing on the “interactions, encounters, and confrontations” (5) among Jewish survivors and refugees, defeated Germans, and occupying forces, Atina Grossmann provides a gender-oriented social history replete with contradictions, strugg…
Schmitt’s Diaries
Written between 1912 and 1979, Carl Schmitt’s diaries (published and unpublished) rank among the most illuminating documentary sources of the era. This chapter argues that the published diaries have significantly transformed perceptions of his personality, motivations, and sentiments as well as of his thoughts on crucial intellectual and political questions related to 20th century Germany. Drawing extensively on these primary sources, the chapter…
On the Road to Damascus: The Telos Engagement with Carl Schmitt
We must recognize there is always a threat, always an enemy.... Because there is no such thing as universal peace.... The central function of government is the creation and enforcement of security.—Jon Meacham, “A Case for Optimistic Stoicism”1
Little History”: The Crisis in U.S. Academic History
A keynote speaker at the German Studies Association Conference in October 2013 was the renowned historian David Blackbourn, who—together with Geoff Eley—had originally made his reputation by challenging the well-entrenched Sonderweg interpretation of the course of modern German historical development. His keynote address, however, had the far less intellectually lofty, and certainly more humorous, title “Honey, I Shrunk German History.”1
Courageous Confrontations with the Realities of the Lebenswelt
George David Schwab, Odyssey of a Child Survivor: From Latvia through the Camps to the United States, 2021. Pp. 299
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