Nietzsche and the Nazis
A Personal View by Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
Ockham’s Razor Publishing, 2006, 2010
Update: The hardcover book version is to be published in August 2010 and is now available for pre-order at Amazon.
Here is the manuscript of Nietzsche and the Nazis, based on the script for the 2006 documentary. The 2:45-hour documentary is available at Amazon and Netflix. The entire Nietzsche and the Nazis manuscript is forthcoming in PDF in the spring of 2010 and in book format in the summer of 2010. In the meantime, the manuscript’s parts and sections are available below in your choice of HTML or PDF formats.
Table of Contents [PDF]
Part 1. Introduction: Philosophy and History [PDF]
1. Fascinated by history [HTML] [PDF]
2. What is philosophy of history? [HTML] [PDF]
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Part 2. Explaining Nazism Philosophically [PDF]
3. How could Nazism happen? [HTML] [PDF]
4. Five weak explanations for National Socialism [HTML] [PDF]
5. Explaining Nazism philosophically [HTML] [PDF]
Part 3. National Socialist Philosophy [PDF]
6. The Nazi Party Program [HTML] [PDF]
7. Collectivism, not individualism [HTML] [PDF]
8. Economic socialism, not capitalism [HTML] [PDF]
9. Nationalism, not internationalism or cosmopolitanism [HTML] [PDF]
10. Authoritarianism, not liberal democracy [HTML] [PDF]
11. Idealism, not politics as usual [HTML] [PDF]
12. Nazi democratic success [HTML] [PDF]
Part 4. The Nazis in Power [PDF]
13. Political controls [HTML] [PDF]
14. Education [HTML] [PDF]
15. Censorship [HTML] [PDF]
16. Eugenics [HTML] [PDF]
17. Economic controls [HTML] [PDF]
18. Militarization [HTML] [PDF]
19. The Holocaust[HTML] [PDF]
20. The question of Nazism’s philosophical roots [HTML] [PDF]
Part 5. Nietzsche’s Life and Influence [PDF]
21. Who was Friedrich Nietzsche? [HTML] [PDF]
22. God is dead [HTML] [PDF]
23. Nihilism’s symptoms[HTML] [PDF]
24. Masters and slaves [HTML] [PDF]
25. The origin of slave morality [HTML] [PDF]
26. The Overman [HTML] [PDF]
Part 6. Nietzsche against the Nazis [PDF]
27. Five differences [HTML] [PDF]
28. On the “blond beast” and racism [HTML] [PDF]
29. On contemporary Germans [HTML] [PDF]
30. On anti-Semitism [HTML] [PDF]
31. On the Jews [HTML] [PDF]
32. On Judaism and Christianity[HTML] [PDF]
33. Summary of the five differences [HTML] [PDF]
Part 7. Nietzsche as a Proto-Nazi [PDF]
34. Anti-individualism and collectivism [HTML] [PDF]
35. Conflict of groups [HTML] [PDF]
36. Instinct, passion, and anti-reason [HTML] [PDF]
37. Conquest and war [HTML] [PDF]
38. Authoritarianism [HTML] [PDF]
39. Summary of the five similarities [HTML] [PDF]
Part 8. Conclusion: Nazi and Anti-Nazi Philosophies [PDF]
40. Hindsight and future resolve [HTML] [PDF]
41. Principled anti-Nazism [HTML] [PDF]
Part 9. Appendices
42. Appendix 1: NSDAP Party Program [HTML] [PDF]
43. Appendix 2: Quotations on Nazi socialism and fascism [HTML] [PDF]
44. Appendix 3: Quotations on German anti-Semitism [HTML] [PDF]
45. Appendix 4: Quotations on German militarism [HTML] [PDF]
Bibliography [HTML] [PDF]
Index [HTML] [PDF]
Acknowledgments [HTML] [PDF]
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Supplemental:
Reviewed by Professor Tibor Machan.
Nietzsche and the Nazis — documentary screenshots.
The first several minutes of the documentary are posted at YouTube:
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