TY  - BOOK
AU  - Muller,Jerry Z.
TI  - The Other God that Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism 
SN  - 9780691228259
AV  - HM22.G3 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - National socialism
KW  - Radicalism
KW  - Sociologists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Sociology
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Germany
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Activism
KW  - Adolf Hitler
KW  - Antipathy
KW  - Arnold Gehlen
KW  - Bildung
KW  - Bourgeoisie
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Career
KW  - Carl Schmitt
KW  - Communism
KW  - Contemporary society
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Critique
KW  - Denazification
KW  - Dilthey
KW  - Disenchantment
KW  - Ernst Forsthoff
KW  - Ernst Troeltsch
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Ethos
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Far-right politics
KW  - Federal republic
KW  - Foreign policy
KW  - Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
KW  - Georg Simmel
KW  - Gerhard Ritter
KW  - Germans
KW  - Gleichschaltung
KW  - Habilitation
KW  - Hans Freyer
KW  - Hans-Georg Gadamer
KW  - Helmut Schelsky
KW  - Helmuth Plessner
KW  - Historicism
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Institution
KW  - Intellectual
KW  - Intelligentsia
KW  - Karl Mannheim
KW  - Konrad Adenauer
KW  - Lebensphilosophie
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Left-wing politics
KW  - Liberal democracy
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Martin Broszat
KW  - Martin Heidegger
KW  - Marxism
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Nazi Germany
KW  - Nazi Party
KW  - Nazism
KW  - Of Education
KW  - Pedagogy
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Philosophy of history
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Political philosophy
KW  - Political science
KW  - Politician
KW  - Politics
KW  - Positivism
KW  - Privatdozent
KW  - Publication
KW  - Radical right (United States)
KW  - Ralf Dahrendorf
KW  - Religion
KW  - Right-wing politics
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Secularization
KW  - Self-interest
KW  - Social philosophy
KW  - Social science
KW  - Social theory
KW  - Sociological theory
KW  - Soziologie
KW  - Suggestion
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - Supporter
KW  - Tatkreis
KW  - Technology
KW  - The God that Failed
KW  - Theodor
KW  - Theory
KW  - Thought
KW  - Totalitarianism
KW  - Volksgeist
KW  - Von
KW  - Weimar Republic
KW  - Welfare state
KW  - Werner Sombart
KW  - West Germany
KW  - Wissenschaft
KW  - World history
KW  - World view
KW  - Writing
KW  - Émile Durkheim
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ABBREVIATIONS AND CITATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER ONE. Science as a Vocation, 1887–1914 --; CHAPTER TWO. War, Revolution, and Generational Mission, 1914—1920 --; CHAPTER THREE. Radical Conservatism as Social Theory, 1920–1925 --; CHAPTER FOUR. Ideology and Social Science in Freyer's Practice of Sociology, 1925—1933 --; CHAPTER FIVE. Ideology and Social Science in Freyer's Theory of Sociology, 1925—1933 --; CHAPTER SIX. Revolution from the Right: Theory, 1925-1933 --; CHAPTER SEVEN. Revolution from the Right: Practice, 1933–1935 --; CHAPTER EIGHT. The Dynamics of Disillusionment, 1935–1945 --; CHAPTER NINE. New Conservatism and a New Respectability, 1945–1961 --; CHAPTER TEN. Hans Freyer and the Fate of German Intellectual Conservatism, 1945–1985 --; APPENDIX: Variations on the Theme of “The Other God That Failed”: Ernst Forsthoff, Arnold Gehlen, and Hans Zehrer --; REFERENCES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Why did some of the "best and brightest" of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their "radical conservatism" contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did they play in the Third Reich? How did their experience of totalitarianism lead them to recast their social and political thought? This biography of Hans Freyer, a prominent German sociologist and political ideologist, is a case study of intellectuals and a "god that failed"--not on the political left, but on the right, where its significance has been overlooked. The author explores the interaction of political ideology and academic social science in democratic and totalitarian regimes, the transformation of German conservatism by the experience of National Socialism, and the ways in which tension between former collaborators and former opponents of National Socialism continued to mold West German intellectual life in the postwar decades
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691228259?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228259
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691228259/original
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