The Metaphysics of Race

Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview

Amit Varshizky (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany)

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English

Routledge
04 November 2024

European history; The Holocaust; Second World War; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Fascism & Nazism

Series: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right

This book seeks to reframe debates on the conflicting scientific and spiritual traditions that underpinned the Nazi worldview, showing how despite the multitude of tensions and rivals among its adherents, it provided a coherent conceptual grid and possessed its own philosophical consistency.

Drawing on a large variety of works, the volume offers insights into the intellectual climate that allowed the radical ideology of National Socialism to take hold. It examines the emergence of nuanced conceptions of race in interwar Germany and the pursuit of a new ethical and existential fulcrum in biology. Accordingly, the volume calls for a re-examination of the place of genetics in Nazi racial thought, drawing attention to the multi-register voices within the framework of interwar racial theory. Varshizky explores the ways in which these ideas provided new justifications for the Nazi revolutionary enterprise and blurred the distinction between fact and value, knowledge and faith, the secular and the sacred, and how they allowed Nazi thinkers to bounce across these epistemological divisions.

This volume will be of interest to scholars of Nazi Germany and World War II, intellectual and cultural history, the history of science, and the philosophy of religion.

By: Amit Varshizky (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Germany)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 610g
ISBN: 9781032455181
ISBN 10: 1032455187
Series: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 04 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amit Varshizky is an Israeli-born historian, novelist, and essayist who lives in Berlin. He holds a PhD from the School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University and has lectured at various academic institutions in Israel and Germany. He held Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and previously was Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.