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Troubling Thoughts in Troubled Times

In: Great Nations at Peril

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  • Jürgen G. Backhaus

    (University of Erfurt)

Abstract

Arthur Moeller van den Broeck, Oswald Spengler, Rudolf Steiner, these names call up associations with troubled times. And then the titles also of their books, “The third Reich”, “The demise of the Occident”. Yet, what these authors exactly stood for is known to only very few, and it is therefore the purpose of this article in the Heilbronn tradition to provide a concentrated excerpt in English, present a clear analysis and try a test for current usefulness. Before, however, let us get to know our three protagonists. Arthur Moeller van den Broeck was born in Solingen in 1876 and died in Berlin in 1925. He did not graduate from academic High School but continued his education on his own in Berlin, Paris, and also Italy. In 1914, he voluntarily joined the army, but he was always engaged in literary projects at the same time, editing such journals as “The Conscience” (“Das Gewissen”) or founding the so-called Club of June. Although Hitler took the title of his most important book to describe his own project, Moeller van den Broeck detested him a primitive proletarian. He committed suicide.

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  • Jürgen G. Backhaus, 2015. "Troubling Thoughts in Troubled Times," The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences, in: Jürgen Backhaus (ed.), Great Nations at Peril, edition 127, chapter 1, pages 1-4, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:euhchp:978-3-319-10055-5_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10055-5_1
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