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The Betrayal of the Humanities
The University during the Third ReichStudies in Antisemitism
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 06.09.2022 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253060808 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 624 |
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<p>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? Did they endorse the regime? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? <i>The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich</i> is a collection of groundbreaking essays that shed light on this previously overlooked piece of history.</p>
<p><i>The Betrayal of the Humanities</i> accepts the regrettable news that academics and intellectuals in Nazi Germany betrayed the humanities, and explores what went wrong, what occurred at the universities, and what happened to the major disciplines of the humanities under National Socialism.</p>
<p><i>The Betrayal of the Humanities </i>details not only how<i> </i>individual scholars, particular departments, and even entire universities collaborated with the Nazi regime but also examines the legacy of this era on higher education in Germany. In particular, it looks at the peculiar position of many German scholars in the post-war world having to defend their own work, or the work of their mentors, while simultaneously not appearing to accept Nazism.</p>
<p><i>The Betrayal of the Humanities</i> accepts the regrettable news that academics and intellectuals in Nazi Germany betrayed the humanities, and explores what went wrong, what occurred at the universities, and what happened to the major disciplines of the humanities under National Socialism.</p>
<p><i>The Betrayal of the Humanities </i>details not only how<i> </i>individual scholars, particular departments, and even entire universities collaborated with the Nazi regime but also examines the legacy of this era on higher education in Germany. In particular, it looks at the peculiar position of many German scholars in the post-war world having to defend their own work, or the work of their mentors, while simultaneously not appearing to accept Nazism.</p>
<p>List of Contributors<br>List of Illustrations<br>List of Abbreviations<br>Preface<br>I. Nazi Germany and the Historical Humanities<br>1. The History of the Humanities in the Third Reich, by Alan E. Steinweis<br>2. The "Orient" and "Us", by Suzanne L. Marchand<br>3. Luther Scholars, Jews, and Judaism during the Third Reich, by Christopher J. Probst<br>4. Gerhard von Rad's Struggle against the Nazification of the Old Testament, by Bernard M. Levinson<br>5. Jewish Studies in the Service of Nazi Ideology, by Anders Gerdmar<br>6. Hermann Grapow, Egyptology, and National Socialist Initiatives for the Humanities, by Thomas Schneider<br>7. German Assyriology, by Johannes Renger<br>8. National Socialist Archaeology as a Faustian Bargain, by Bettina Arnold<br>II. Law, Music, and Philosophy in the Third Reich<br>9. Hitler's Willing Law Professors, by Oren Gross<br>10. The Music of Arnold Schoenberg, by Michael Cherlin<br>11. Political Philosophy, by Emmanuel Faye<br>III. Nazi Germany and Beyond<br>12. The Nazification and Denazification of the University of Göttingen, by Robert P. Ericksen<br>13. The University of Göttingen and Its Postwar Response to Persecuted Colleagues, by Aniko Szabo<br>14. Italian Fascism, by Franklin Hugh Adler<br>15. Is There an Anti-Jewish Bias in Today's University?, by Alvin H. Rosenfeld<br>Index of Scholars and Related Academic Figures Examined<br>Index of Paramilitary and Military Roles Held<br>Index of Universities and Academic Institutions Examined <br>Index of Authors<br>Subject Index</p>
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<p><a href="http://levinson.umn.edu/" target="_blank">Bernard M. Levinson</a> serves as Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible. He is the author of four books, including<i> Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovati</i>on and <i>Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel</i>, and six edited volumes.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.plu.edu/history/staff/robert-p-ericksen/" target="_blank">Robert P. Ericksen</a> is the Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies Emeritus at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He has written or edited six books, including <i>Theologians under Hitle</i>r, <i>Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany</i>, and (edited with Susannah Heschel) <i>Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust.</i></p>
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<p><a href="http://levinson.umn.edu/" target="_blank">Bernard M. Levinson</a> serves as Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible. He is the author of four books, including<i> Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovati</i>on and <i>Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel</i>, and six edited volumes.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.plu.edu/history/staff/robert-p-ericksen/" target="_blank">Robert P. Ericksen</a> is the Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies Emeritus at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He has written or edited six books, including <i>Theologians under Hitle</i>r, <i>Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany</i>, and (edited with Susannah Heschel) <i>Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust.</i></p>
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<p>This is a sobering study of how quickly and completely German universities and the humanities were corrupted by Nazi ideology and policies during the National Socialist era. Led by some of the most prominent scholars in their fields, entire scholarly disciplines conformed to Nazi rule, leading to the broader perversion of humanistic values, standards and ethics throughout Germany. Thoughtful and profound, the essays in this volume explore this history as a warning for our own times.</p>
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