The Myth Of The Twentieth Century

Author : Alfred Rosenberg
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Page : 472 pages
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Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534936270

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The Myth of the Twentieth Century (German: Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts) is a 1930 book by Alfred Rosenberg, one of the principal ideologues of the Nazi Party and editor of the Nazi paper Volkischer Beobachter. The titular "myth" (in the special Sorelian sense) is "the myth of blood, which under the sign of the swastika unchains the racial world-revolution. It is the awakening of the race soul, which after long sleep victoriously ends the race chaos." The book has been described as "one of the two great unread bestsellers of the Third Reich" (the other being Mein Kampf). In private Adolf Hitler said: "I must insist that Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century is not to be regarded as an expression of the official doctrine of the party." Hitler objected to Rosenberg's paganism."

Author : Alfred Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004913988

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The Myth of the Twentieth Century by Alfred Rosenberg Pdf

Author : Alfred Rosenberg
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1366851064

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MYTH OF THE 20TH CENTURY by Alfred Rosenberg Pdf

Regarded as the second most important book to come out of Nazi Germany, Alfred Rosenberg's Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts is a philosophical and political map which outlines the ideological background to the Nazi Party and maps out how that party viewed society, other races, social ordering, religion, art, aesthetics and the structure of the state. The "Mythus" to which Rosenberg (who was also editor of the Nazi Party newspaper) refers was the concept of blood, which, according to the preface, "unchains the racial world-revolution." Rosenberg's no-hold barred depiction of the history of Christianity earned it the accusation that it was anti-Christian, and that unjustified controversy overshadowed the most interesting sections of the book which deal with the world racial situation and the demand for racially homogenous states as the only method to preserve individual world cultures. Rosenberg was hanged at Nuremberg on charges of "waging wars of aggression" even though he had never served in the military, and it is likely that he was hanged purely because of this book.

Author : Ivan Strenski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038372640

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Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-century History by Ivan Strenski Pdf

Author : Alfred Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494332981

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The Myth of the 20th Century by Alfred Rosenberg Pdf

Regarded as the second most important book to come out of Nazi Germany, Alfred Rosenberg's Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts is a philosophical and political map which outlines the ideological background to the Nazi Party and maps out how that party viewed society, other races, social ordering, religion, art, aesthetics and the structure of the state. The "Mythus" to which Rosenberg (who was also editor of the Nazi Party newspaper) refers was the concept of blood, which, according to the preface, "unchains the racial world-revolution." Rosenberg's no-hold barred depiction of the history of Christianity earned it the accusation that it was anti-Christian, and that unjustified controversy overshadowed the most interesting sections of the book which deal with the world racial situation and the demand for racially homogenous states as the only method to preserve individual world cultures. Rosenberg was hanged at Nuremberg on charges of "waging wars of aggression" even though he had never served in the military, and it is likely that he was hanged purely because of this book. Contents Preface Book One: The Conflict of Values Chapter I. Race and Race Soul Chapter II. Love and Honour Chapter III. Mysticism and Action Book Two: Nature of Germanic Art Chapter I. Racial Aesthetics Chapter II. Will And Instinct Chapter III. Personality And Style Chapter IV. The Aesthetic Will Book Three: The Coming Reich Chapter I. Myth And Type Chapter II. The State And The Sexes Chapter III. Folk And State Chapter IV. Nordic German Law Chapter V. Church And School Chapter VI. A New System Of State Chapter VII. The Essential Unit

Author : Michael Bell,Peter Poellner
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9042005831

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Myth and the Making of Modernity by Michael Bell,Peter Poellner Pdf

The contributors to this collection of essays on the literary use of myth in the early twentieth century and its literary and philosophical precedents from romanticism onwards draw on a range of disciplines, from anthropology, comparative literature, and literary criticism, to philosophy and religious studies. The underlying assumption is that modernist myth-making does not retreat from modernity, but projects a mode of being for the future which the past could serve to define. Modernist myth is not an attempted recovery of an archaic form of life so much as a sophisticated self-conscious equivalent. Far from seeking a return to an earlier romantic valorizing of myth, these essays show how the true interest of early twentieth-century myth-making lies in the consciousness, affirmative as well as tragic, of living in a human world which, in so far as it must embody value, can have no ultimate grounding. Although myth may initially appear to be the archaic counterterm to modernity, it is thus also the paradigm on which modernity has repeatedly reconstructed, or come to understand, its own life forms. The very term myth, by combining, in its modern usage, the rival meanings of a grounding narrative and a falsehood, encapsulates a central problem of modernity: how to live, given what we know.

Author : Furio Jesi
Publisher : Italian List
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0857424815

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Secret Germany by Furio Jesi Pdf

An analysis of how a political myth is taken and treated as a metaphor that reflects how a country like Germany built its own destiny. In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefan George to describe a collective political and poetic project: the introduction of the highest values of art into everyday life, the secularization of myth and the mythologization of history. In this book, Furio Jesi takes up the term in order to trace the contours of that political, artistic, and aesthetic thread as it runs through German literary and artistic culture in the period--which, in the 1930s, became absorbed by Nazism as part of its prophecy of a triumphant future. Drawing on thinkers like Carl Jung and writers such as Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke, Jesi reveals a literary genre that was transformed, tragically, into a potent political myth.

Author : Jacob L. Talmon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351503921

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Myth of the Nation and Vision of Revolution by Jacob L. Talmon Pdf

In what may well rank as the finest political and intellectual history of the twentieth century, the late J. L. Talmon explores the origins of the schism within European society between the totalitarians of Right and Left as well as the split between an acceptance of the historical national community as the natural political and social framework and the vision of a socialist society achieved by a universal revolutionary breakthrough. This, the third and final volume of Talmon's history of the modern world, brings to bear the resources of his incisive scholarship to examine the workings of the ironies of totalitarianism as well as the resources of democracy.

Author : Ivan Strenski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:39000005597823

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Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-century History by Ivan Strenski Pdf

Author : Judith E. Bernstock
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 0809316595

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Under the Spell of Orpheus by Judith E. Bernstock Pdf

This comprehensive view of the Orpheus myth in modern art focuses on an extremely rich artistic symbol and cuts through all the clichés to explore truly significant problems of meaning. The author takes a new approach to the iconography of major modern artists by incorporating psychological and literary analysis, as well as biography. The three parts of the book explore the ways in which artists have identified with different aspects of the often paradoxical Orpheus myth. The first deals with artists such as Paul Klee, Carl Milles, and Barbara Hepworth. In the second, Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, and Isamu Noguchi are discussed. Artists examined in the final part include Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lipchitz, Ethel Schwabacher, and Cy Twombly. The author documents her argument with more than sixty illustrations.

Author : Valerie Holman,Debra Kelly
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1571817018

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France at War in the Twentieth Century by Valerie Holman,Debra Kelly Pdf

France experienced four major conflicts in the fifty years between 1914 and 1964: two world wars, and the wars in Indochina and Algeria. In each the role of myth was intricately bound up with memory, hope, belief, and ideas of nation. This is the first book to explore how individual myths were created, sustained, and used for purposes of propaganda, examining in detail not just the press, radio, photographs, posters, films, and songs that gave credence to an imagined event or attributed mythical status to an individual, but also the cultural processes by which such artifacts were disseminated and took effect. Reliance on myth, so the authors argue, is shown to be one of the most significant and durable features of 20th century warfare propaganda, used by both sides in all the conflicts covered in this book. However, its effective and useful role in time of war notwithstanding, it does distort a population's perception of reality and therefore often results in defeat: the myth-making that began as a means of sustaining belief in France's supremacy, and later her will and ability to resist, ultimately proved counterproductive in the process of decolonization.

Author : Lillian Guerra
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807876381

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The Myth of José Martí by Lillian Guerra Pdf

Focusing on a period of history rocked by four armed movements, Lillian Guerra traces the origins of Cubans' struggles to determine the meaning of their identity and the character of the state, from Cuba's last war of independence in 1895 to the consolidation of U.S. neocolonial hegemony in 1921. Guerra argues that political violence and competing interpretations of the "social unity" proposed by Cuba's revolutionary patriot, Jose Marti, reveal conflicting visions of the nation--visions that differ in their ideological radicalism and in how they cast Cuba's relationship with the United States. As Guerra explains, some nationalists supported incorporating foreign investment and values, while others sought social change through the application of an authoritarian model of electoral politics; still others sought a democratic government with social and economic justice. But for all factions, the image of Marti became the principal means by which Cubans attacked, policed, and discredited one another to preserve their own vision over others'. Guerra's examination demonstrates how competing historical memories and battles for control of a weak state explain why polarity, rather than consensus on the idea of the "nation" and the character of the Cuban state, came to define Cuban politics throughout the twentieth century.

Author : Elsie Singmaster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : 0689121636

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The Magic Mirror by Elsie Singmaster Pdf

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521580168

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Literature, Modernism and Myth by Michael Bell Pdf

The use of myth in Modernist literature is a misleadingly familiar theme. Joyce's appropriation of Homer's Odyssey and Eliot's of Frazer's Golden Bough are, like Lawrence's primitivism or Yeats's nationalist folklore, attempts to discover an underlying metaphysic in an increasingly fragmented world. In Literature, Modernism and Myth Michael Bell also examines the relationship of myth and modernism to postmodernism. Myth, Bell shows, is inherently flexible; it was used to justify Pound's totalizing vision of society which eventually descended into fascism, and the liberal, ironic vision of human existence Joyce and Mann expressed. Those theorists who present myth as another form of mystification, a search for false origins, ignore its use by modernists to emphasise the ultimate contingency of all values. This anti-foundational element, Bell claims, enables myth to act as a corrective to the claims of ideological critique. Bell shows how postmodern concerns with political and social responsibility, and the role literature plays in formulating this, have in fact been inherited from modernism.

Author : Bergonzi, Bernard
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 031257195X

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Newness and Aftermath by Bergonzi, Bernard Pdf