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Book SynopsisFeatures a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, It demonstrates the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair.
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction I. Paul de Lagarde and a Germanic Region 1. The Critic as Academician 2. The Idealism of Antimodernity 3. The Germanic Religion 4. The Germanic Nation 5. The Corruption of German Education 6. The Prophet Remembered II. Julius Langbehn and Germanic Irrationalism 7. The Critic as a Failure 8. Art and the Revolt against Modernity 9. Art, Politics, and the Heroic Folk 10. Langbehm and the Crisis of the 1890's III. Moeller van den Bruck and the Third Reich 11. The Critic as Exile 12. The Esthete's Turn to Politics 13. The Conscience of the Right 14. Toward the Third Reich Conclusion: From Idealism to Nihilism Notes Acknowledgment Bibliography Index
