%0 Journal Article
%T Dialectics of Classicism: The birth of Nazism from the spirit of Classicism
%A Harry Redner
%J Thesis Eleven
%@ 1461-7455
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0725513619850915
%X This article is an attempt to revise and extend two prior conceptions: Adorno and Horkheimer¡¯s dialectic of Enlightenment and Murphy and Robert¡¯s dialectic of Romanticism. It traces a developmental trajectory within German Kultur, starting around the mid-18th century, that goes through three moments or phases: the Grecophilia of Goethe and Schiller, the Grecomania of H£¿lderlin, Schelling and early Hegel, and the Grecogermania of Wagner, Nietzsche and Heidegger. The latter provided the ideological underpinning of Hitler¡¯s Nazism. Thus the paper aims to show that Nazism had deep roots within the soil of German Kultur, for almost from the very start Classicism and anti-Semitism were integral aspects of the one cultural movement. Furthermore, this movement was the one surrogate form of a Neo-Pagan and anti-Christian trend in German modernity
%K Anti-Semitism
%K Classicism
%K Germans
%K Greeks
%K Heidegger
%K Hitler
%K Kultur
%K Nietzsche
%K Romanticism
%K Wagner
%K Zivilization
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0725513619850915