Völkisch Writers and National Socialism

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provided feedback, encouragement and stimulus; John Worthen and Cornelia Rumpf-Worthen provided meals and a desk for the final phase. Finally this work would not have been possible without the support of Stefan Kirmse, who accompanied its production over many years.I would like to thank all my family, but in particular, my uncle, Gordon Tourlamain, and his late wife Pauline, for both their moral and financial support, which made it possible to embark on this project in the first place.I dedicate this book to my parents, John and Moyra Tourlamain.

Heidegger as a Colonial Thinker: Puritanism and Germany’s Errand into the Wilderness

“…The latter was championed by different groups associated with the so-called völkische Bewegung or movement of the German people (Puschner 2016;Schumann 1996). Promulgated around the previous turn of the century by authors like Paul de Lagarde ([1878] 1920) and carried on by the journalist Friedrich Lange ([1893] 1904) next to Dietrich Eckart who founded the anti-Semitic weekly Auf gut Deutsch (In Plain German), the ideological currency of Deutschtum gained considerable momentum during the years surrounding the Great War (Sieg 2009(Sieg , 2013Tourlamain 2014). At that time, even advocates of "humanistic idealism" like the Nobel prize laureate Rudolf Eucken were swept along by nationalist euphoria that often bordered on unfiltered chauvinism (Sluga 1993, 77-78).…”

Bibliografía reciente sobre el historicismo

“…De ahí que pronto entrara en crisis: no había ya barreras morales ni religiosas contra el relativismo. El historicismo alemán, por su parte, siguió siendo muy fuerte en la primera mitad del siglo XX, influyendo activamente en la cultura völkisch-nacionalista tan activa entre 1890 y 1960 65 .…”