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Author Lackey, Michael.

Title The modernist God state : a literary study of the Nazis' Christian Reich / Michael Lackey.

Imprint New York : Continuum, c2012.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  809.93382 L118m 2012    ---  Available
Description viii, 358 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note "The Christian cross underlies the Nazi swastika--such is the startling thesis of this boldly revisionist work. Drawing on novelistic insights (Conrad, Styron) more discerning about humanity's unconscious heart of darkness than anything to be found in shallowly rationalistic philosophers, Michael Lackey challenges dominant readings of the Holocaust and the ideology of National Socialism. Against the conventional narrative of Nazi secularism, Lackey insists on the centrality for the key Nazi thinkers of a Christian God-state to be realized through the purification of the world of those whose incapacity for transcending the material demonstrates their sub-humanity--Jesus Christ as Our Aryan Redeemer, bearing not just a sword but a case of Zyklon B."--Charles W. Mills.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-351) and index.
Subject Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Christianity and literature -- History -- 20th century.
Politics and literature -- History -- 20th century.
Literature -- Aesthetics.
National socialism and religion.
Church and state -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
Nation-state -- History -- 20th century.
Added Title Literary study of the Nazis' Christian Reich
ISBN 9781441197597 (pbk.)
1441197591 (pbk.)
9781441125453
1441125450

 
    
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