2nd Edition

Metapolitics From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler

By Peter Viereck Copyright 2003
622 Pages
by Routledge

624 Pages
by Routledge

620 Pages
by Routledge

More than half a century after the fall of the Third Reich, Nazism, its roots and its essential nature, remain a central and unresolved enigma of the twentieth century. During the period of Hitler's ascendancy, most attempts at explaining this unprecedented phenomenon were framed in "economic," often Marxist, sociological terms and concepts. Peter Viereck's Metapolitics , initially published in... Read more
NEW SURVEY FOR THE 1960's. METAPOLITICS I. The German Problem II. Romanticism and the Cult of Life: An Attempt at Definition III . From 1648 to 1848: The Two Souls in Action IV Father Jahn, the First Storm Trooper V. Siegfried: The Metapolitics of Richard Wagner VI. Hitler and Wagner XII. Prophet Laureate of Metapolitics: Part II XIII. Nazi Religion versus Christian Religion XIX. Metapolitics in Action: The Theology of Terror N. The Flawed Genius of Stefan George and His Historical Context v. Twilight of the Outward Life

Biography

Viereck, Peter