The Other God that Failed : : Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism / / Jerry Z. Muller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Muller, Jerry Z.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ABBREVIATIONS AND CITATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER ONE. Science as a Vocation, 1887–1914 --; CHAPTER TWO. War, Revolution, and Generational Mission, 1914—1920 --; CHAPTER THREE. Radical Conservatism as Social Theory, 1920–1925 --; CHAPTER FOUR. Ideology and Social Science in Freyer's Practice of Sociology, 1925—1933 --; CHAPTER FIVE. Ideology and Social Science in Freyer's Theory of Sociology, 1925—1933 --; CHAPTER SIX. Revolution from the Right: Theory, 1925-1933 --; CHAPTER SEVEN. Revolution from the Right: Practice, 1933–1935 --; CHAPTER EIGHT. The Dynamics of Disillusionment, 1935–1945 --; CHAPTER NINE. New Conservatism and a New Respectability, 1945–1961 --; CHAPTER TEN. Hans Freyer and the Fate of German Intellectual Conservatism, 1945–1985 --; APPENDIX: Variations on the Theme of “The Other God That Failed”: Ernst Forsthoff, Arnold Gehlen, and Hans Zehrer --; REFERENCES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691228259; 9783110442496; 9783110784237
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691228259?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jerry Z. Muller.

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.