Germany's New Conservatism : : Its History and Dilemma in the Twentieth Century / / Klemens Von Klemperer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Von Klemperer, Klemens,
• MitwirkendeR: Neumann, Sigmund,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1957
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1947
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

This is at once a chapter in the history of ideas and, by reason of its focus on the Weimar Republic, a case study. The author first offers a stimulating approach to a definition of that much abused word, conservatism. He then discusses the new conservatism's roots in such men as Burckhardt and...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• FOREWORD. CONSERVATISM: NEW AND OLD
• PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• PART I. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BACKGROUND
• CHAPTER I. TOWARD A DEFINITION OF CONSERVATISM
• CHAPTER II. THE GENESIS OF THE DILEMMA
• CHAPTER III. THE REVIVAL OF GERMAN CONSERVATISM IN THE YOUTH MOVEMENT AND DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
• PART II. THE NEO-CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT
• I. THE REVOLUTION OF 1918-1919 AND ITS CONSERVATIVE ASPECTS
• CHAPTER II. THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC
• CHAPTER III. THE LATER YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC
• CHAPTER IV. NATIONAL BOLSHEVISM AND THE NEO-CONSERVATIVES
• PART III. THREE MAJOR EXPRESSIONS OF NEO-CONSERVATISM
• CHAPTER I. THE THIRD REICH OF MOELLER VAN DEN BRUCK
• CHAPTER II. THE PESSIMISM OF OSWALD SPENGLER
• CHAPTER III. THE NIHILISM OF THE EARLY ERNST JÜNGER
• PART IV. NEO-CONSERVATISM AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM
• CHAPTER I. THE FAILURE OF THE FINAL TEST: THE CONVERGING OF THE TWO MOVEMENTS
• CHAPTER II. THE "GOD THAT FAILED"
• CONCLUSION
• POSTSCRIPT, 1968
• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
• INDEX