Reactionary Modernism
Technology, culture, and politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19906576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Herf Herf (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Publication date | 1985-02-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Reactionary Modernism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511583988 |
| OpenAlex | W4251148637 |
| Open Library | OL34443901M |
| ISBN | 9780511583988 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 86 |
In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He documents evidence of a cultural tradition he calls 'reactionary modernism' found in the writings of German engineers and of the major intellectuals of the. Weimar right: Ernst Juenger, Oswald Spengler, Werner Sombart, Hans Freyer, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. The book shows how German nationalism and later National Socialism created what Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, called the 'steel-like romanticism of the twentieth century'. By associating technology with the Germans, rather than the Jews, with beautiful form rather than the formlessness of the market, and with a strong state rather than a predominance of economic values and institutions, these right-wing intellectuals reconciled Germany's strength with its romantic soul and national identity
Aesthetics · Art history · Bourgeoisie · Communism · Enlightenment · Epistemology · German · Hegelianism · Ideology · Modernism (music) · Nationalism · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · Romanticism · Socialism · Theology · Weimar Republic · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy
Governing Europe
Mistaken Anti-modernity
Politisk romantik
The Austro-Marxist Struggle for “Intellectual Workers”
Chronotopes in the scopic regime of sovereignty
Religion, Protestants and national identity
Ética e técnica? Dialogando com Marx, Spengler, Jünger, Heidegger e Jonas
On the Social Construction of Moral Universals
Karl Mannheim on Fascism
On defining the ‘Fascist Minimum
TheBalkanWars and the rise of the reactionary modernist utopia in youngTurk thought and the journalTürk Yurdu[Turkish Homeland]
Gennadiy Zyuganov and the ‘Third Road
The return of carl schmitt
Towards a new model of the rise of right‐wing extremism
A strong and prosperous condition' - the geography of state building and social reform in Peter the Great's Russia
Topographies/topologies of the camp
Towards a New Model of Generic Fascism
Towards a Theory of Counter-Modernity
Myth as political and social performance
Toward a sociology of national socialism
Nazi aesthetics
International Relations and the Invisibility of Ideology
Greek Interbellum Modernizers and the `Sociological Idea
Will 'The Other God' Fail Again
The Pharmacotic War on Terrorism
The radical Right, realism, and the politics of conservatism in postwar international thought
El Holocausto y las comparaciones con otros genocidios1
Qué es el decisionismo? Reflexiones en torno a la doctrina política de Carl Schmitt
Auschwitz
Nazi Germany's Propaganda Aimed at Arabs and Muslims During World War II and the Holocaust
Trajectories of anti-globalism
Par la voie du Behemoth
Weber and Elias on religion and violence
The Making of Green Knowledge
Contentious Politics in Western Europe and the United States
The Changing European State
On Studying Governments
Political Theology and the Critique of Modernity
Comparing Economic Interest Organizations
Recasting European Welfare States
What Is New About Governance and Why Does It Matter?
Gerechtigkeitstheorie und empirische Gerechtigkeitsforschung
The Holy Reich
Social-property Regimes and the Uneven and Combined Development of Nationalist Practices
The Nazis and the Nature Conservationists
The question of space in Carl Schmitt
Xenophon and the Nazis
Negotiating the Relationship Human – Non-Human as a Question of Meaning in Twentieth Century Iranian Authenticity Discourse
Nationalism, Modernization and the Polylogue of Civilizations
Konformi̇zme İsyan
“We are Germans. We are perfect, and we are dead”
Wotan’s Biopunk
Catholicism and the Domestic Sphere
A New Consensus? Recent Research on Fascism in Europe, 1918–1945
Human Rights
Icarus' Flight
Antisemitism without Jews
The politics of religious identity
Enculturing Fascism? Towards Historical Geographies of Inter-War Italy
Modernism, modernity, and politics in the general history of science
Mythologies of Genesis and Neo-Nazi Palingenesis
Reflections on Patrick Baert’s The Existentialist Moment
Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society
The Future of Planning at the ‘ End of History ’
Forms of Life
Fascists
Strukturen Sehen. Über die Karriere eines Hexagons in der quantitativen Revolution
Duch kapitalizmu i jego los
McLuhan’s Grammatical Theology
The idea of technology in cold war political thought
The emancipation of women and of the Jews
Plan de Estudio 2022
History as Destiny
The New Right
The ‘borrowed language’ of German unification
Making philosophical thought dangerous again
Metapolitical New Right Influencers
Tradição e Modernismo na construção da "nova" mulher do Estado Novo português
Budapest Central
Les impressions d'un futur Premier ministre belge au Canada
Death Cults and Dystopian Scenarios
Austria, aSonderfall? Defining German and Austrian identity
Humanizing the It
More Corporeal, More Concrete
Hasidic Myth-Activism
Critical theory and the question of technology
| Unique citing works | 86 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,21 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2026 (40) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 55 |