TD: volume 9, issue 2012, 1, page 101–122

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This essay deals with the interplay between cooptation, legitimation, and repression with a special emphasis on the Nazi attitude and the behavior towards politically indifferent Germans. It analyzes the ideological framework of justification for the repressive Nazi politics that were also used to recruit followers who had a clean conscience and felt they were doing the right thing. Nazi ideology rejected the bourgeois - Christian concepts of universal human rights and dignity as anachronistic while simultaneously using these concepts for ideological purposes. Finally, the article shows how opportunism and radical activism stood side by side in Nazi Germany, with both of these attitudes contributing to the stabilization of the Nazi regime.

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TD: volume 7, issue 2010, 2, page 279–286

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Aurel Kolnai (1900–1973) was a moral and political philosopher who in 1938 published “The War against the West”, a critical study of Nazi Socialist ideology. Because the book sold well and received very good reviews Kolnai was asked by his publisher, Victor Gollancz, to give two lectures at the Left Book Club summer school in August 1939, one of which under the headline of “The pivotal principles of NS ideology” covered main topics of his book. This handwritten manuscript is published here for the first time. The Hannah Arendt Institute is planning a historical-critical German edition of Kolnai’s “The War against the West”.

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TD: volume 7, issue 2010, 2, page 309–312

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TD: volume 5, issue 2008, 2, page 275–303

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