The Other God that Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism

Jerry Z. Muller

Published by Princeton University Press 1988

The Other God that Failed

Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism

Jerry Z. Muller

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691228259

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Why did some of the "best and brightest" of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their "radical conservatism" contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did they play in the Third Reich? How did their experience of totalitarianism lead them to recast their social and political thought? This biography of Hans Freyer, a prominent German sociologist and political ideologist, is a case study of intellectuals and a "god that failed"--not on the political left, but on the right, where its significance has been overlooked. The author explores the interaction of political ideology and academic social science in democratic and totalitarian regimes, the transformation of German conservatism by the experience of National Socialism, and the ways in which tension between former collaborators and former opponents of National Socialism continued to mold West German intellectual life in the postwar decades.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
ABBREVIATIONS AND CITATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER ONE. Science as a Vocation, 1887–1914 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
CHAPTER TWO. War, Revolution, and Generational Mission, 1914—1920 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
CHAPTER THREE. Radical Conservatism as Social Theory, 1920–1925 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
CHAPTER FOUR. Ideology and Social Science in Freyer's Practice of Sociology, 1925—1933 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
CHAPTER FIVE. Ideology and Social Science in Freyer's Theory of Sociology, 1925—1933 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
CHAPTER SIX. Revolution from the Right: Theory, 1925-1933 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
CHAPTER SEVEN. Revolution from the Right: Practice, 1933–1935 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
CHAPTER EIGHT. The Dynamics of Disillusionment, 1935–1945 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
CHAPTER NINE. New Conservatism and a New Respectability, 1945–1961 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
CHAPTER TEN. Hans Freyer and the Fate of German Intellectual Conservatism, 1945–1985 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
APPENDIX: Variations on the Theme of “The Other God That Failed”: Ernst Forsthoff, Arnold Gehlen, and Hans Zehrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439