Word: hegel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devil abroad in his 20th Century world is the ultra-rational scientist-technocrat, for whom man is the measure of all things; who would storm heaven with test tubes, nuclear fission and pure reason. Of one of his satanic prototypes Lewis says: "He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void...
...time the way other biographers write about eccentric family servants. And he writes about friends unknown to the world-Andrew Green, "Swelly" Bangs, Bob Barlow, Howard Gushing, Howard Sturgis, Bob Potter, Lawrence Butler-as if they were philosophers whose minds he studied as he studied those of Hegel and Plato. Some of his portraits...
...Month-Club's choice for February. It is a scrambled, 774-page history of Naziism and its principal characters from the earliest beginnings to the Purge of 1934, a biography of the Führer, a study of Germany since 1918 and a discourse on Germanic thought from Hegel to Hitler. The theme that binds it all together, if any thing does, may not seem to some readers like thoughtfully balanced sociology. Yet few readers will deny that Heiden has made an ingenious, readable, shocking case for his "pragmatical and mechanistically minded modern man, product of mass education, whose...
...pedantic, phenomenally hardworking. His mind likes order, method, efficiency, and all that passes through it is filed neatly in mental pigeonholes. But he is no dullard. A clear thinker, he keeps his feet on a solid foundation of history, philosophy and economics. Like most Soviet leaders, he quotes from Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Plekhanov-and Stalin-at the drop of a gavel...
...importance of Naziism in the '30s, and today, is not only the millions of mice marching to the pipings of a demagogue. Naziism was in tune with Deutschland Über Alles-with the German superrace strains of Hegel, Nietzsche and Fichte; with the thunder of Wagner; with the rhythmic plans of the German General Staff first to dominate Europe and then the world; with the rondo movement of German Junkers and industrialists to seize world markets. Naziism was nourished and adopted by Army men like embittered, ever-dreaming General Erich Ludendorff, industrialists like Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp...