The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology

This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbehn, and Moeller van den Bruck—their active lives spanning the years from the middle of the past century to the threshold of Hitler's Third Reich—attacked, often incisively and justly, the deficiencies of German culture and the German spirit. But ...