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The Scientific Origins of National Socialism (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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Many studies of the origins of National Socialism claim that the
"volkisch" and proto-Nazi movement arose largely as a reaction to
the materialistic ideas of nineteenth-century science and
especially to the naturalistic philosophy of Ernst Haeckel and the
German Monist League. Using hitherto unexplored material, Daniel
Gasman calls this generalization into question. Arguing that the
importance of science has been relatively neglected in accounts of
the intellectual origins of Nazism, he attempts to show that
Haeckel's "scientific" Darwinism, and his movement, the German
Monist League, were proto-Nazi in character. Contrary to popular
belief, Haeckel's type of social Darwinism actually played a
critical role in the formation of National Socialist ideology. In
his new introduction, Gasman notes that recent research goes far to
confirm Haeckel's role as an ideological progenitor of fascist
ideology. This is true not only for Germany, but also for the birth
of fascist thought in Italy and France. In general, Gasman claims,
the history of science plainly reveals how Haeckel's social
Darwinism nourished the roots of fascism no less than avant-garde
modernism. When "The Scientific Origins of National Socialism"
initially appeared, the "Times Literary Supplement" called it a
"very well-argued thesis... that is completely successful... and
leaves the reader to extract his own moral lessons." "Medical
History," in its review of "The Scientific Origins of National
Socialism," said, "His book is essential for understanding modern
Germany. It has a general message derived from the events in
Germany, where scientific data were permitted to take on a mystical
signficiance... with ghastly consequences." Bruce Chatwin, in the
"New York Review of Books," called the book "brilliant." Now
available in paperback, with a new introduction by the author, this
seminal work will be of interest to intellectual historians, as
well as those interested in twentieth-century Europe.
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