Comments on: The Scary City: Lamprecht, Becker, Lynd

By: Wilsonian internationalism as Our Town « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog

Wilsonian internationalism as Our Town « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:27:12 +0000

[...] http://clarespark.com/2009/11/19/the-scary-city-lamprecht-becker-lynd/ [...]

By: Review: In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog

Review: In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:07:23 +0000

[...] democrats (Ezra Pound for instance) could also line up with Nazis during WW2. (See my blog: http://clarespark.com/2009/11/19/the-scary-city-lamprecht-becker-lynd/ for Dodd’s early support of the German Karl Lamprecht, a diagnostician of the mental illness [...]

By: White Walls and Shadows: Irrationalist explanations for Nazism, pro and con « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:19:13 +0000

[...] Here are some prestigious irrationalist accounts of Nazi antisemitism, a problem often linked to the scandal of Western immobility as the destruction of European Jewry proceeded apace. The explanations I shall discuss have helped to shape postwar academic formulations of twentieth-century conflict and race relations, not only our understanding of the Holocaust. There is much to recommend them, especially when we understand the great overarching, still disputed question: were the horrors of the Nazi period an aberration, perhaps exacerbated by propaganda and bad diplomacy? Indeed, were the horrors so singular, compared with the excesses of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and other brutal regimes? How important was the presence of Hitler to the success of the Nazis, and to what degree were his racial beliefs common enough to explain his widespread support in all classes? To the extent that the writers I discuss remind us both of Nazi uniqueness and of their continuities with other antidemocratic regimes of past and present, I believe they are helpful to the vigilant libertarian. But we must ask, how precise, comprehensive, and non-partisan is their cultural description of history; how scientific are their analytic categories? A socially responsible historian may not mold events to fit a predetermined outcome. I will continue my thesis (in numerous blogs on this website) that many antidemocrats view the Enlightenment itself as a Jewish plot–a shadow on the white wall of Authority, an uncanny innovation that estranged them from their families of origin; the aristocratic radicals, long entrenched in the humanities, are particularly energetic in promoting this interpretation. See http://clarespark.com/2009/11/22/on-literariness-and-the-ethical-state/ and http://clarespark.com/2009/11/19/the-scary-city-lamprecht-becker-lynd/. [...]

By: Eric Stephens

Eric Stephens — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:29:24 +0000

Just happened across your article on Chomsky v. Lippmann during research project. I am very interested in your perspectives on other matters as well… and curious about your background, main interests etc.
Thanks for your time, Eric S.