RT Book
T1 Between Occultism and Nazism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race in the Fascist Era
T2 Aries Book Ser.
A1 Staudenmaier, Peter 1965-
LA English
PP Leiden
PB BRILL
YR 2014
ED 1st ed.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1656644258
AB Peter Staudenmaier's study Between Occultism and Nazism examines the controversial history of Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophist movement in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy as a case study in the political significance of esoteric and alternative spiritual groups.
AB Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Spiritual Science and the Modern Occult Revival -- Chapter 1 Germany's Savior: Rudolf Steiner on Race and Redemption -- Chapter 2 The Politics of the Unpolitical: German Anthroposophy in Theory and Practice Before 1933 -- Chapter 3 Accommodation, Collaboration, Persecution: Anthroposophy in the Shadow of National Socialism, 1933-1945 -- Chapter 4 The German Essence Shall Heal the World: Ideological Affinities between Anthroposophy and Nazism -- Chapter 5 Education for the National Community? Waldorf Schools in the Third Reich -- Chapter 6 The Nazi Campaign against Occultism -- Chapter 7 The Spirit of the Race and the Soul of the Nation: Anthroposophy and the Rise of Fascism in Italy -- Chapter 8 Spiritual Racism in Power: Italian Anthroposophists and the Fascist Racial Laws, 1938-1945 -- Conclusion Occultism and Nazism in Historical Perspective -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index.
NO Description based upon print version of record
CN DD256.5 .S7514 2014
SN 9789004270152
K1 Fascism and culture ; Italy
K1 Germany ; Politics and government ; 1933-1945
K1 Italy ; Politics and government ; 1922-1945
K1 National socialism and occultism
K1 Electronic books