The Philosophy of Life and Death Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics
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Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
The Philosophy of Life and Death
Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics
Nitzan Lebovic
History / Europe / General
Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and political volatility of the Weimar era.
Nitzan Lebovic is Associate Professor of History and Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University, USA. His other publications include Zionism and Melancholia: The Short Life of Israel Zarchi (in Hebrew, 2015), The Politics of Nihilism (co-editor, 2014), Catastrophe: A History and Theory of an Operative Concept (co-editor, 2014), and special issues of Rethinking History (Nihilism), Zmanim (Religion and Power), and The New German Critique (Political Theology).
| Publication Date: | 08 November 2015 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN-13: | 9781349465286 |
| Format: | Paperback softback |
| Page Count: | 301 |