Nietzsche and the Nazis
A Personal View by Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
Ockham’s Razor Publishing, 2006, 2010
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 manuscript is 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.
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