Sociology Responds to Fascism

ISBN-13: 9780415040860 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 272 str.

Stephen P. Turner; Dirk Kasler

Opis

Over recent years there has been growing interest in the relations between academic intellectuals and professionals under the Nazi regime. Several works on Heidegger, Nazi doctors and Paul de Man have appeared. This book attempts to do for sociology what has been done for other fields: to demythologize the pre-war role of sociologists and provide a serious historical basis for reflection on it. The myth is simple: that the noble and clear-sighted Frankfurt School was expelled by Hitler and raised the consciousness of the west. The realities are considerably more complex. During and after the war, a consensus account of fascism emerged. But in the inter-war years sociologists misanalyzed, misunderstood or supported fascism. The book examines the historical record in Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, the USA and the UK.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Sociology and Fascism in the Interwar Period, Stephen P. Turner; Chapter 2 Outsiders and True Believers, Gerald Mozeti?; Chapter 3 Ambiguous Influences, Marta Losito, Sandro Segre; Chapter 4 Academic Discussion or Political Guidance?, Dirk Käsler, Thomas Steiner; Chapter 5 Social-Scientific Experts—No Ideologues, Carsten Klingemann; Chapter 6 ‘Sociologists’, Sociographers, and ‘Liberals’, Dénes Némedi; Chapter 7 Principle, Politics, Profession, Robert C.Bannister; Chapter 8 Responses to Fascism in Britain, 1930–1945, Peter Lassman;