Nazi Germany and the humanities / Wolfgang Bialas and Anson Rabinbach [editors].

Papers from two conferences held at the University of California, Irvine (9-10 Nov. 2001) and at Princeton University (4-5 Apr. 2003).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The humanities in Germany after 1933 : semantic transformations and the nazification of the disciplines / Georg Bollenbeck -- "We are no longer the university of the liberal age" : the humanities and national socialism at Heidelberg / Steven P. Remy -- The Goethe Society in Weimar as showcase of Germanistik during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi regime / Ehrhard Bahr -- Difficulty of democracy : rethinking the political in the philosophy of the Thirties (Gehlen, Schmitt, Heidegger) / Dieter Thomä -- Fascism and hermeneutics : Gadamer and the ambiguities of "inner emigration" / Richard Wolin -- Selected affinities : Nietzsche and the Nazis / Martin Schwab -- "Images of mankind" and the notion of order in philosophical anthropology and national socialism : Arnold Gehlen / Karl-Siegbert Rehberg -- German historical scholarship under national socialism / Willi Oberkrome -- Baroque legacies : national socialism's Benjamin / Jane O. Newman -- Nazism, "orientalism", and humanism / Suzanne Marchand -- Classics in the Second World War / Volker Losemann -- English and romance studies in Germany's Third Reich / Frank-Rutger Hausmann -- For "Volk, blood, and God" : the theological faculty at the University of Jena during the Third Reich / Susannah Heschel -- Nazi historical scholarship on the "Jewish question" / Alan E. Steinweis.