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The Price of Exclusion : Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898-1933 / Eric Kurlander.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs in German History ; 10Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2006]Copyright date: 2006Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800733626
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.510943/09041
LOC classification:
  • DD76 .K87 2006
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One: The Genesis of Völkisch Liberalism in Schleswig-Holstein, 1898–1918 -- Chapter Two: Decisive Liberalism and the Challenges of Völkisch-Nationalism in Silesia, 1898-1918 -- Chapter Three: Republican Particularism and the Creation of an Alsatian Liberal Counterculture, 1898-1918 -- Chapter Four: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Völkisch Liberalism in Schleswig-Holstein, 1918-1933 -- Chapter Five: The Price of Universalism in Weimar Silesia, 1918–1933 -- Chapter Six: The Victory of Republican Particularism in Alsace, 1918–1933 -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: "The failure of Liberalism" in Germany and its responsibility for the rise of Nazism has been widely discussed among scholars inside and outside Germany. This author argues that German liberalism failed because of the irreconcilable conflict between two competing visions of German identity. In following the German liberal parties from the Empire through the Third Reich Kurlander illustrates convincingly how an exclusionary racist Weltanschauung, conditioned by profound transformations in German political culture at large, gradually displaced the liberal-universalist conception of a democratic Rechtsstaat. Although there were some notable exceptions, this widespread obsession with "racial community [Volksgemeinschaft]" caused the liberal parties to succumb to ideological lassitude and self-contradiction, paving the way for National Socialism.

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One: The Genesis of Völkisch Liberalism in Schleswig-Holstein, 1898–1918 -- Chapter Two: Decisive Liberalism and the Challenges of Völkisch-Nationalism in Silesia, 1898-1918 -- Chapter Three: Republican Particularism and the Creation of an Alsatian Liberal Counterculture, 1898-1918 -- Chapter Four: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Völkisch Liberalism in Schleswig-Holstein, 1918-1933 -- Chapter Five: The Price of Universalism in Weimar Silesia, 1918–1933 -- Chapter Six: The Victory of Republican Particularism in Alsace, 1918–1933 -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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"The failure of Liberalism" in Germany and its responsibility for the rise of Nazism has been widely discussed among scholars inside and outside Germany. This author argues that German liberalism failed because of the irreconcilable conflict between two competing visions of German identity. In following the German liberal parties from the Empire through the Third Reich Kurlander illustrates convincingly how an exclusionary racist Weltanschauung, conditioned by profound transformations in German political culture at large, gradually displaced the liberal-universalist conception of a democratic Rechtsstaat. Although there were some notable exceptions, this widespread obsession with "racial community [Volksgemeinschaft]" caused the liberal parties to succumb to ideological lassitude and self-contradiction, paving the way for National Socialism.

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