Aurel Kolnais The War Against the West Reconsidered
Aurel Kolnais The War Against the West remains one of the most insightful analyses of Nazi thought ever written. First published in 1938 it was a revelation for many readers. Quite different in tone and approach from most other analyses of Nazism available in English, it was remarkable for the thoroughness with which it discussed the writings of Nazi thinkers and for the seriousness with which it took their views. In this edited collection published eighty years after the original book, a team of distinguished scholars reassess this classic text and also consider its continued relevance to contemporary politics. They address issues such as the comparison of Nazism and communism, anti-Semitism, British and American perceptions of the Reich before the war and the Nazi legal theory of Carl Schmitt. This book is a vital source for historians of Nazism and Fascism.
Wolfgang Bialas, self-employed lecturer and translator, editor of Aurel Kolnai, Der Krieg gegen den Westen (Gttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015) and author of Moralische Ordnungen des Nationalsozialismus (Gttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014).
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Contents
Uwe Backes is Deputy Director at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism and Professor of Political Science at the Technical University of Dresden. He is the author of Political Extremes. A Conceptual History from Antiquity to the Present (London/New York: Routledge, 2010).
Zoltn Balzs is Professor of Political Science at the Corvinus University, Budapest and Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. With Francis Dunlop he co-edited Exploring the World of Human Practice: Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai (New York: Central European University Press (CEU Press), 2004).
Chris Bessemans wrote his PhD (2012) at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven Belgium, and with support of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) on Kolnais moral philosophy and analytic phenomenological value-ethics. He published previously on Kolnais moral philosophy and on moral conflicts, for instance A Short Introduction to Aurel Kolnais Moral Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research, 38 (2013): 20332 and A Glimpse of the Aurel Kolnai Nachlass, Rivista di Filosofia Neoscolastica, 1 (2012): 15373.
Wolfgang Bialas works as a freelance lecturer and translator. He is the editor of Aurel Kolnai, Der Krieg gegen den Westen (Gttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015) and author of Moralische Ordnungen des Nationalsozialismus (Gttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014).
Micha Brumlik is Professor Emeritus of Educational Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitt Frankfurt/M. and was from 20002005 Director of the Fritz-Bauer-Institute Frankfurt/M. Since 2013 he has been Senior Professor at Center for Jewish Studies Berlin/Brandenburg. His most recent publication is Wann, wenn nicht jetzt. Versuch ber die Gegenwart des Judentums (Berlin: Neofelis, 2015).
Lee Congdon is Professor Emeritus of History at James Madison University. He has been a Fulbright Research Scholar in Budapest and a Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of Seeing Red:Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge of Communism (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001).
Andrew S. Cunningham is a Canadian lawyer. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto (1999) and has published several articles on eighteenth-century moral psychology. He has been interested in Kolnais writings for over thirty years.
Michaela Hoenicke Moore is Professor of History at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Know Your Enemy: The American Debate on Nazism, 193345 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Graham J. McAleer is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. Among his publications are Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics (New York: Fordham University Press 2005). He also wrote the introduction to Aurel Kolnai, Ethics, Value and Reality (London: Transaction, 2008).
Richard Steigmann-Gall is Professor of History at Kent State University. He is the author of The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 19191945
