Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
The Intellectual Revolt against Liberal Democracy
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1996) 131-158
Keywords:
Sombart, Werner, Influence
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Antisemitism History 1933-1945
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Jews History 1933-1945
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National socialism Philosophy
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Economic aspects
Abstract:
Discussing his book "Reactionary Modernism" (1984), states that one of the major currents in Nazi ideology was a reconciliation between modern technology and the anti-modernist, romantic, irrational ideas of German nationalism. Pp. 148-152, "Sombart on technology, capitalism and the Jews," discuss the influence of Sombart's views on Nazi ideology. Sombart wrote favorably of the German entrepreneurial aspects of capitalism, while he identified the "calculating, commercial, bourgeois spirit" with outsiders, especially the Jews. He saw Judaism as rationalistic, nature-dominating, and ascetic, and Jews as representatives of universality and abstraction. He advocated the integration of technology into a German national revival. Notes that whereas Sombart attacked only the "Jewish Geist" in the German economy, Hitler used the national revival to attack the Jewish people.
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