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Between 'Conservative Revolution', aesthetic fundamentalism and new nationalism: Thomas Mann's early political writings

The author of 'Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen' (1918) is usually regarded as one of the founding fathers of the so-called 'Conservative Revolution'. But Thomas Mann's understanding of this concept does not at all coincide with the definition established by Armin Mohler, mainly in that it is not Nietzschean. Nor do the ties with the George circle furnish grounds for assigning Mann to the 'Conservative Revol ution', any more than to the 'aesthetic fundamentalism' which was cul tivated there. Moreover, it can be shown that Mann's political views differ significantly from the 'new nationalism' propagated in the circle around Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, and that they have more affini ties to old liberalism than to a 'Conservative Revolution'.

Key Words: Conservative Revolution • Thomas Mann • nationalism • political theory

History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1-23 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/095269519801100201


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