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The Betrayal of the Humanities : The University during the Third Reich /

"How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Or did they look the other way, whether out of delibera...

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Otros Autores: Ericksen, Robert P. (Editor ), Levinson, Bernard M. (Bernard Malcolm) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The betrayal of the humanities under national socialism / Bernard M. Levinson and Robert P. Ericksen
  • I. Nazi Germany and the historical humanities
  • The history of the humanities in the Third Reich / Alan E. Steinweis
  • The "Orient" and "Us" : making ancient Oriental studies relevant during the Nazi regime / Suzanne L. Marchand
  • Luther scholars, Jews, and Judaism during the Third Reich : from the hallowed halls of academia to the sacred spaces of German Protestantism / Christopher J. Probst
  • Gerhard von Rad's struggle against the Nazification of the Old Testament / Bernard M. Levinson
  • Jewish studies in the service of Nazi ideology : Tübingen's Faculty of Theology as a center for Antisemitic research / Anders Gerdmar
  • Hermann Grapow, Egyptology, and national socialist initiatives for the humanities / Thomas Schneider
  • German Assyriology : a discipline in troubled waters / Johannes Renger
  • National socialist archaeology as a Faustian bargain : the contrasting careers of Hans Reinerth and Herbert Jankuhn / Bettina Arnold
  • II. Law, music, and philosophy in the Third Reich
  • Hitler's willing law professors / Oren Gross
  • The music of Arnold Schoenberg : catastrophe and creation / Michael Cherlin
  • Political philosophy : Hannah Arendt and Aurel Kolnai as interpreters of the Nazi totalitarian state / Emmanuel Faye
  • III. Nazi Germany and beyond
  • The Nazification and denazification of the University of Göttingen / Robert P. Ericksen
  • The University of Göttingen and its postwar response to persecuted colleagues : a broken relationship / Anikó Szabó
  • Italian fascism : decentering standard assumptions about antisemitism and totalitarianism / Franklin Hugh Adler
  • Is there an anti-Jewish bias in today's university? / Alvin H. Rosenfeld.