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Political ideals / Houston Stewart Chamberlain ; translated with an introduction and notes by Alexander Jacob.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 1855-1927.
- Standardized Title:
- Politische Ideale. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Philosophy--History.
- Political science.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- History.
- Conservatism--Germany.
- Conservatism.
- Germany.
- Germany--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 1855-1927.
- Chamberlain, Houston Stewart.
- Physical Description:
- 140 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : University Press of America, [2005]
- Summary:
- This edition of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's Politische Ideale (1915) reveals the significance of Chamberlain in the history of German conservative political philosophy. Contrasting the vital nationalistic state with the sterile commercialism of liberal democracies; moral freedom with the unruly selfishness of democratic parties; and the decaying culture of the Anglo-Saxon peoples with the relatively pure Teutonic, Chamberlain evokes in this work, with the deftest of strokes, the principal elements of a genuinely conservative state.
- Apart from studying the salient points of Chamberlain's political doctrine of state-formation, the introduction to this translation also surveys the Prussian intellectual antecedents of Chamberlain, Paul de Lagarde, and Heinrich von Treitschke, and examines the legacy of Chamberlain's political thought in the Neoconservatism and Prussianism of the Weimar conservatives, Oswald Spengler, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, and Edgar Julius Jung, as well as in the work of the National Socialist ideologue, Alfred Rosenberg.
- Contents:
- I Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1929): A Biographical Sketch 3
- II The Prussian antecedents of Chamberlain: Paul de Lagarde and Heinrich von Treitschke 13
- III The "ideal state" of Houston Stewart Chamberlain 25
- IV The legacy of Chamberlain: The Neoconservatism and Prussianism of Spengler, Moeller van den Bruck, Jung and Rosenberg 35
- Text
- I Man "as Nature" 57
- II The Rejection 69
- III The State 81
- IV Scientific Organisation 99
- V Guiding Principles 113
- I The major works of Houston Stewart Chamberlain 133
- II Intellectual Relations 135.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761829121
- OCLC:
- 60889323
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