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Synopsis
First published in 1933, this study on race and state was motivated by the rise of National Socialism in Germany. It analyzes contemporary race theories and traces the rise of the modern race idea, analyzing why race ideas became successful in Germany.
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Review
"The best historical account of race-thinking in the pattern of a history of ideas."'--Hannah Arendt from "Origins of Totalitarianism"
"The best historical account of race-thinking in the pattern of a history of ideas."'--Hannah Arendt from "Origins of Totalitarianism"
"The best historical account of race-thinking in the pattern of a history of ideas."'--Hannah Arendt from Origins of Totalitarianism
From the Back Cover
In Part I Voegelin analyzes contemporary race theories by placing the question of race in the context of the more comprehensive philosophical problem of the interrelationships of body, mind, and soul. He demonstrates the intellectual shortcomings and theoretical fallacies of current theories; more important, he contributes to the development of a modern philosophical anthropology that aims, as Helmuth Plessner put it in a review of Race and State, "at a concept of the human being that does justice to its multilayered existence as a physical, vital, psychic, and intellectual being, without making one of these layers the measure and explanatory basis for the others". In Part II Voegelin deals with race ideas, which he distinguishes from race theories. Race ideas, like other political ideas, form a part of political reality itself, contributing to the formation of social groups and societies. Voegelin shows that the modern race idea is just one "body idea" among others, such as the tribal state and the Kingdom of Christ, each offering a different symbolic image of community. He traces the rise of the modern race idea, analyzes its function to structure community, and offers an answer to the question of why race ideas became successful in Germany.
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- PublisherUniv of Missouri Pr
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0826262015
- ISBN 13 9780826262011
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
- EditorVondung Klaus
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