Revising the Dialectic of Enlightenment
Alfred Baeumler and the Nazi Appropriation of Myth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4070875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Pan (0000-0003-3558-4125, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Issue | 84 |
| Pages | 37 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/827797 |
| OpenAlex | W2320491956 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Scholars since World War II have distinguished National Socialism from Enlightenment by pointing to Nazi recourse to mythic structures in construction of its ideology,l and liberal opposition to Nazism has long been based on consequent rejection of myth. The attempt to separate Enlightenment from Nazism based on myth dates back to 1926, when Thomas Mann attacked theory of myth developed by budding philosopher, Alfred Baeumler, and accused him of promoting a Nazi agenda by defending the great Return to mystic-historical-romantic womb of mother.2 Against such a reactionary return to romanticism and mysticism, Mann defends idealism and humanism and seeks victory of Apollinian rules and concepts over mythic forces, writing that instead of praying to myth, one would do better today by helping one's people to win such victories.3 Helmut Koopmann argues that Mann's anti-fascist, Enlightenment position can be differentiated from Baeumler's fascist one because Mann supports victory of father principle while Baeumler sought a regression back toward cult of mother.4 But as Hubert
Appropriation · Art · Dialectic · Enlightenment · Epistemology · German · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Nazism · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Central European national history · German Literature and Culture Studies · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |