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Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of
Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new
paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished
historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt
School thinkers to examine seriously the problem of political
institutions. After the rise of the Nazis to power, his emphasis
shifted to an analysis of economic power, and then after the war to
political psychology. But his contributions in Behemoth were
groundbreaking: that the Nazi organization of society involved the
collapse of traditional ideas of the state, of ideology, of law,
and even of any underlying rationality. The book must be studied,
not simply read, Raul Hilberg wrote. The most experienced
researchers will tell us that the scarcest commodity in academic
life is an original idea. If someone has two or three, he is rich.
Franz Neumann was a rich man. Published in association with the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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