Philosophy of History

Appendix 4: Quotations on German militarism [Nietzsche and the Nazis]

[This is Appendix 4 of Nietzsche and the Nazis. Sources for the quotations are at the end of this post.] Appendix 4: Quotations on German militarism Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): “War itself, if it is carried on with order and with a sacred respect for the rights of citizens, has something sublime in it, and makes […]

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Metaphysical solutions to Kant

[This excerpt is from Chapter 2 of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault] Metaphysical solutions to Kant: from Hegel to Nietzsche Georg W. F. Hegel’s philosophy is another fundamentally Counter-Enlightenment attack on reason and individualism. His philosophy is a partially secularized version of traditional Judeo-Christian cosmology. While Kant’s concerns centered upon epistemology,

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Economic socialism, not capitalism [Section 8 of Nietzsche and the Nazis]

[This is Section 8 of Nietzsche and the Nazis.] 8. Economic socialism, not capitalism The second theme of the Program is a stress upon socialism and a strong rejection of capitalism. Numerically, socialism is the most emphasized theme in the Nazi Program, for over half of the Program’s twenty-five points—fourteen out of the twenty-five, to

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Bibliography [Nietzsche and the Nazis]

[This is the Bibliography for Nietzsche and the Nazis.] Nietzsche and the Nazis—Bibliography Ahern, Daniel R. 1995. Nietzsche as Cultural Physician. Pennsylvania State University Press. Allison, David B. 2001. Reading the New Nietzsche. Rowman and Littlefield. Anchor, Robert. 1972. Germany Confronts Modernization, German Culture and Society, 1790-1890. D. C. Heath. Barkai, Avraham. 1990. Nazi Economics:

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Bibliography [EP]

[This is the Bibliography from Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault] Bibliography Abrams, M. H. et al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Fifth edition, Volume II. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1986. Ayer, A. J. Language, Truth, and Logic [1936]. Dover, 1946. Ayer, A. J., editor. Logical Positivism. Free

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