Reactionary modernism: technology, culture, amd politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Reactionary modernism: technology, culture, amd politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number943.086/0026
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]01049
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Cambridge, England
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Cambridge University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1986
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]251p.,index,bibliographical essay
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]0521338336
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
How could Germany's conservative revolutionaries of the Weimar Republic and later the Nazis, reject the rationalism of the Enlightenment and yet embrace modern technology? Herf examines this paradox in a cultural tradition evident in the writings of some major intellectuals of the Weimar right - Ernst Juenger, Oswald Spengler, Werner Sombart, Hans Freyer, Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidigger - as well as writings of German engineers both before and after the Nazi seizure of power