Beschreibung:
"Avihu Zakai's Jewish Exiles' Psychological Interpretations of Nazism provides a valuable new contribution to the scholarly debate on intellectual leadership in 'dark times.' Building on his earlier work The Pen Confronts the Sword, Zakai again addresses the larger Kulturkampf leveled against fascism and Nazism. In this concise, accessible book, he demonstrates how four exiled German-Jewish thinkers-Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm, Siegfried Kracauer, and Erich Neumann-confronted Nazism through psychological inquiry and how their interpretations help us to make sense of the cultural response to totalitarianism."
Introduction.- Wilhelm Reich and the Sexual Roots of Fascism.- A Psychological Inquiry into Totalitarianism: Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom.- Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler: Weimar Cinema as Pandora's Box.- Erich Neumann and the Western Crisis of Ethics.- Epilogue.