Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Philosophy Today
Angaben zur Quelle:
37,3 (1993) 257-274
Schlagwort(e):
Arendt, Hannah,
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Holocaust (Jewish theology)
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National socialism Philosophy
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Kurzfassung:
A philosophical and psychological analysis of the limitations of Arendt's theories on totalitarianism when applied to Nazism, and especially to the ideology of Adolf Hitler. Arendt failed to acknowledge the importance of the symbolic, which led her to abandon any interpretation of Nazi antisemitism based on religious schemas. Yet her remarks on the camps and on hell pointed in that direction - that total domination is closely and strangely related to the religious belief in hell. What "realizes" total domination in the modern Western world is a mutilated hell, devoid of the idea of God. The power of man is viewed as greater than he would ever have dared to imagine. Hitler was consumed by envy (and not merely by jealousy, as Freud contended) of the Jews who he believed were the secret masters of the world, but the ultimate meaning of Nazism is revealed as metaphysical revolt, hatred of God and the Law. Nazism intended to create a world conspiracy to fight the supposed Jewish conspiracy which Hitler, in his delirium, believed was real. States that the failure of Arendt's thought is to have missed the dimension of unconscious fantasy which retains the traces of a primordial panic and of hatred.
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