Darwinism and Death
Devaluing Human Life in Germany 1859-1920
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4455679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Weikart (California State University, Stanislaus, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 323-344 |
| Publication date | 2002-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.2002.0019 |
| PMID | 12192671 |
| OpenAlex | W2032246679 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 24 |
The debate over the significance of Social Darwinism in Germany has special importance, because it serves as background to discussions of Hitler's ideology and of the roots of German imperialism and World War I. 1 There is no doubt that Hitler was a Social Darwinist, viewing history as a struggle for existence among unequal races. All Hitler scholars agree on this point, and it is too obvious to deny when one reads Mein Kampf. 2 Whether Social Darwinism contributed to imperialism and militarism is less clear, though some have argued it did, at least as a justification for them. 3 Some Anglo-American writers during and immediately after World War I blamed Social Darwinism for inflaming German militarism. 4 [End Page 323]
Darwinism · Epistemology · German · Ideology · Militarism · Political science · Politics · Social Darwinism · Sociology · World War II · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medical History and Research · Philosophy · Religious studies
Quality and quantity
Bismarck und der Imperialismus
Health, race, and German politics between national unification and Nazism, 1870-1945
Evolution and the war
The Nazi Doctors
Rassenhygiene, Nationalsozialismus, Euthanasie
Zwangssterilisation im Nationalsozialismus
The Ideological Origins of Nazi Imperialism
The racial state
Natur und Staat
Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860–1945
Nature Lost? Natural Science and the German Theological Traditions of the Nineteenth Century
The Feminism and Socialism of Lily Braun
The Descent of Darwin
Der gute Tod? Euthanasie und Sterbehilfe in Geschichte und Gegenwart
Medicine and Modernity
Race Hygiene and National Efficiency
Socialist Darwinism
Sozialistische Eugenik
God and Nature
Hitler's Vienna
Vererbung und Auslese im Lebenslauf der Volker. Eine Staatswissenschaftliche Studie auf Grund der Neueren Biologie
Laissez-faire Social Darwinism and individualist competition in Darwin and Huxley
The Origins of Social Darwinism in Germany, 1859-1895
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2019 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |