Nazi Ideology and Ethics

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5422-1
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 475 Seiten

This volume documents the still-rare encounter of moral-philosophical, historiographic and medical-ethical research on National Socialism, and looks at the ethical aspects of the National Socialist ideology, as well as at the moral convictions of National Socialist perpetrators, some of whom acted as “perpetrators with a good conscience”. It furthermore discusses questions such as the content and rationale of Nazi race ethics, the “euthanasia” killings and the Nazi ethics of racial warfare and the role of the SS as the vanguard of the National Socialist race state, the moral conditioning of Nazi perpetrators and their self-exoneration strategies after the defeat of Nazism, and German Holocaust memory politics.

Due to the broad range of topics covered and methodologies discussed, this book will interest academic readers of various disciplines of the humanities, including German history, Holocaust studies, Jewish studies philosophy and medical ethics. It will also appeal to the common public interested in Nazi ideology and ethics, and their implications for current ethical issues and challenges, such as the consequences of moral indifference as well as the debate on euthanasia and mercy killing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bialas, Wolfgang

Fritze, Lothar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik

Über Autor(innen)

Wolfgang Bialas (b. 1954) recently finished a research project on Nazi Ideology and Ethics at the Hannah-Arendt-Institute Dresden. His areas of specialization are Nazism and the Holocaust, political philosophy, and European intellectual history. His most recent publication is Politischer Humanismus und Verspätete Nation. Helmuth Plessners Auseinandersetzung mit Deutschland und dem Nationalsozialismus (2010). He is also the co-editor (with Anson Rabinbach) of the volume Nazi Germany and the Humanities (2007).

Lothar Fritze (b. 1954), is a Scientific Collaborator at the Hannah-Arendt-Institute Dresden and Professor at the Technical University of Chemnitz. He is the author of nine books and numerous articles in scientific journals, and the co-editor of the scientific journal Aufklärung und Kritik. His areas of specialization are the ideology of totalitarian societies, political philosophy and ethics. His most recent publication is Anatomie des totalitären Denkens. Kommunistische und nationalsozialistische Weltanschauung im Vergleich (2012).