03933cam a2200541 a 4500 32287 32287 BJBSDDR 20230410105221.0 ta 120501s2015 enka b 001 0 eng 9781107521858 (paperback) 17280790 DLC DLC spa eng pcc e-gx--- 302 DD 254 D411i 2015 909/.09821 23 Dennis, David B., 1961- Inhumanities : Nazi interpretations of western culture / David B. Dennis. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi, 541 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 464-532) and index. Foundations of Nazi cultural history. -- The "Germanic" origins of western culture -- Vox volkish -- The western tradition as political and patriotic -- The western tradition as anti-semitic -- The archenemy incarnate -- Blind to the light. -- Classicism romanticized -- Intolerance toward enlightenment -- Forging steel romanticism -- Romantic music as "our greatest legacy" -- Modern dilemmas. -- Realist paradox and expressionist confusion -- Nordic existentialists and volkish founders -- Music after Wagner -- "Holy" war and Weimar "crisis" -- Heralds of the front experience -- Weimar culture wars 1: defending German spirit from "Circumcision" -- Weimar culture wars 2: combatting "degeneracy" -- Nazi "solutions" -- "Honor your German masters" -- The Nazi "renaissance" -- Kultur at war. Inhumanities is an unprecedented account of the ways Nazi Germany manipulated and mobilized European literature, philosophy, painting, sculpture and music in support of its ideological ends. David B. Dennis shows how, based on belief that the Third Reich represented the culmination of Western civilization, culture became a key propaganda tool in the regime's program of national renewal and its campaign against political, national and racial enemies. Focusing on the daily output of the Völkischer Beobachter, the party's official organ and the most widely circulating German newspaper of the day, he reveals how activists twisted history, biography and aesthetics to fit Nazism's authoritarian, militaristic and anti-Semitic world views. Ranging from National Socialist coverage of Germans such as Luther, Dürer, Goethe, Beethoven, Wagner and Nietzsche to 'great men of the Nordic West' such as Socrates, Leonardo and Michelangelo, Dennis reveals the true extent of the regime's ambitious attempt to reshape the 'German mind' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Party work. Vèolkischer Beobachter (Munich, Germany : 1920) Nazi propaganda Germany. Fascism and culture Germany. Civilization, Western. Press and politics Germany History 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 Propaganda. Civilización occidental 543 Fascismo y cultura 5073 Alemania Prensa y política 811 Alemania Propaganda nazi 5074 Alemania Guerra mundial II, 1939-1945 Propaganda 3830 Germany Civilization 20th century. Germany History 1918-1933. Germany History 1933-1945. Alemania Civilización Siglo XX 5072 Alemania Historia 1918-1933 951 Alemania Historia 1933-1945 951 Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012015443-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012015443-d.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012015443-t.html lcc BK llh 0 0 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 0 302 DD 254 D411i 2012 00000119775 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 BK