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Hitler and Abductive Logic - The Strategy of a Tyrant (Hardcover)
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Hitler and Abductive Logic - The Strategy of a Tyrant (Hardcover)
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Adolf Hitler is the greatest mystery of the 20th century, and the
mystery surrounding him consists of two unanswered questions that
have baffled biographers and historians. First, how did he ever
rise to power? Second, who was he really? Hitler had the power to
mesmerize crowds as the most dynamic orator of the modern age. Yet,
his power was not in his ideas, which he collected from the gutter
sheets of Vienna, nor was it in his personality; his biographers
describe him as an "unperson" and his character as a "void" and a
"black hole." What, then, was the source of his power? Was he a
medium or a magician with paranormal powers, as many contemporaries
thought? Or did he have a secret or method that has not yet been
revealed? Ben Novak spent fourteen years searching for the secret
of Hitler's political success and his power as a speaker. Hitler's
most astute contemporary observer, Konrad Heiden, who wrote the
first objective books on Hitler warning that this man was "the
greatest massdisturber in world history," suggested that Hitler's
secret lay in his use of "eine eigentiimliche art von Logik,"or a
"peculiar form of logic." Beginning with this clue, Novak finds
that there is a new form of logic in accordance with Heiden's
description and examples that can explain Hitler's phenomenal
political success. This new form of logic, called "abduction," was
discovered by an American philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce
(1839-1914), who is rapidly becoming America's most well-known
philosopher and logician. Abduction is a third form of logic, in
addition to deduction and induction. Unlike the other forms of
logic, abduction is based on instinct and has a power over
emotions. Novak argues that Hitler was the first politician to
apply the logic of abduction to politics. This book provides the
first coherent account of Hitler's youth that ties together all the
known facts, clearly showing the genesis of the strangest and most
terrible man of the twentieth century while identifying the power
he discovered that allowed him to break out into the world in such
a terrifying way.
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