- Paperback: 254 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; New Ed edition (1 July 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520029526
- ISBN-13: 978-0520029521
- Product Dimensions: 2.1 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,402,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Rather than analyzing Hitler's life and times, this book tries to answer the question, how could it have happened? Why did the German people follow him? It aims to reconstruct the nature of Hitler's political ideology, its roots, logic and function.
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I was astonished to see this book hasn't been reviewed already - it's been out and widely used by scholars since 1975 and offers more thoughtful analyses of the Hitler phenomenon in its gracefully written 200 pages than any of the massive, obsessively detailed volumes that keep rolling off the presses. Born in Prague, Stern served in the Czech Army and the RAF during WWII and went on to a stellar academic career with nine well-reviewed publications the last time I looked. In this one, he does a brilliant, compelling job of reconstructing the whole personal-social-cultural-philosophical concatenation that enabled and sustained National Socialism. Methodology ranges from Anglo-American speech-act theory (Ch. 4, "Propaganda as Perlocutionary Act" is just stunning in its import and contemporary relevance)to a kind of critical phenomenology that evokes the immediate life-world of the time and probes the questions of origin and coherence with the imagination and patience of a poet-philosopher. Not even the gifted diarists of this period, like Klemperer and Moltke, convey "what it felt like" so convincingly.
This revised 1990 edition makes good use of the 1986 "Historikerstreit" among German revisonists, the notorious case of David Irving and Hugo Ott's depressing 1988 Heidegger biography, and includes the moving introuction to the samizdat Czech edition. Like Stern, some of the best analysts of the Hitler phenomenon are the ones who knew it eye-to-eye: Conrad Heiden in Der Fuehrer and even the much-maligned Hermann Rauschning in The Revolution of Nihilism. (Ron Rosenbaum's Explaining Hitler is a smart contemporary overview and less painful to read by virtue of its distance from events.) In the end, though, I'd put this at the head of the reading list for anyone seeking a wise and humane guide to the tragedy and lessons of the Hitler era.
This revised 1990 edition makes good use of the 1986 "Historikerstreit" among German revisonists, the notorious case of David Irving and Hugo Ott's depressing 1988 Heidegger biography, and includes the moving introuction to the samizdat Czech edition. Like Stern, some of the best analysts of the Hitler phenomenon are the ones who knew it eye-to-eye: Conrad Heiden in Der Fuehrer and even the much-maligned Hermann Rauschning in The Revolution of Nihilism. (Ron Rosenbaum's Explaining Hitler is a smart contemporary overview and less painful to read by virtue of its distance from events.) In the end, though, I'd put this at the head of the reading list for anyone seeking a wise and humane guide to the tragedy and lessons of the Hitler era.
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