1st Edition

The Scientific Origins of National Socialism

By Daniel Gasman Copyright 2004
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Many studies of the origins of National Socialism claim that the vo;lkisch and proto-Nazi movement arose largely as a reaction to the materialistic ideas of nineteenth-century science and especially to the naturalistic philosophy of Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League. Using hitherto unexplored material, Daniel Gasman calls this generalization into question. Arguing that the importance... Read more
One: Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League; Two: The Political Assumptions of Monism; Three: Monism and Christianity; Four: Monism, the Corporative State and Eugenics; Five: Monism and Marxism; Six: Monism, Imperialism, and the First World War; Seven: Monism and National Socialism

Biography

Daniel Gasman