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..., therefore, reads Adorno's philosophy of culture against the grain, and it does so by focusing on a constellation of concepts: fan, fanatic, fanaticism, Schwärmerei, Begeisterung , playfulness, and love. The article attempts to salvage a notion of critical fandom in and against Adorno: to give serious...

... Eisner’s book, we meet Sergei Nilus, the most prominent publisher and commentator of the Protocols. Eisner shows him as a gray-haired mystic who is often invited to court, a competitor to Rasputin, a professor, and a wildly gesticulating fanatical anti-Semite (fi g. 2). We also learn that Nilus...

..., which is often fanatically religious, as a huge threat both to Israel and to American domestic and foreign policy. But it is important to add that there are voices of opposition: not only isolated voices like Remnick’s but also organizations like J Street, which supports a democratic Israel...

... of the everyday life of the Volk.] (505–6) Hauser’s discourse here is a straight expression of Nazi fanaticism, with- out the least hint of moral scruple or even moral questioning; it also allows Littell to drive home the historical thesis that “ordinary” Germans knew far more than they later admitted...

... of ideology. The totalitarian movements, according to Arendt, were “embodiments of ideologies” ( OT , 249). She often describes the “fanaticism” of the members of the totalitarian movements (e.g., OT , 308, 348, 409) and the importance of the “scientific” predictions made by their spokesmen who have...

... “third eye,” the third eye of primitive man. (Gottfried Benn also dreamed of the third eye in his essay “The Construction of Personality” around 1930.) A delirium in which Aue sees Adolf Hitler as a fanatical, washed-up German, one who attempts to copy all things Jewish; just as in the novels...

...; Hitler’s nothing. All one can be sure of is that the view point [sic] which pretends he is nothing because he looks like it, that he is a mannekin and the others the men, that he isn’t the whole works in that vortex of ambition and personal fanatical belief where Nazism is still...

... ourselves in danger from an enemy more subtle, more ruthless, more fanatic than any we have ever faced. The time has come for Americans to challenge the aggressive, godless, and treasonable practices of totalitarian communism.”26 Clearly, Coca-Cola saw itself and was seen by many as, in the words...

... would Chamberlain, Winifred Wagner, and their friends want to declare their support for this unknown? Surely, Hitler’s fanatical love of Wagner could not by itself have made much of an impres- sion, for there was hardly a scarcity of Wagner enthusiasts in and around Bayreuth. Nor would his...

... partake in the late Enlighten- ment turn against the deceptive power of a heated imagination and a “fanatic enthusiasm.”19 Yet, instead of exorcising the rhetoric of ghostliness, fi rst introduced into the narrative by representing the incantation of spirits, the text displaces its fi gures...

.... It was characteristic of the Nazi leadership to employ dubious characters; in this case, Willrich and Hansen were both artistic amateurs and fanatic denouncers.41 With the powers they claimed, they radicalized a pol- icy that those in power had neither planned nor anticipated in this form.42 39. See Zuschlag...

... us how Hitler won the struggle against his father and became a leader of Youth, instead of growing up into a responsible bureaucrat and father of a family. If we want to know what makes a fanatical Nazi tick, we must look at how the Nazi propagandists represented the German family—how they made...

... in a letter to Scholem: “I’ve come up with a fundamental reconsideration of Zionism because I seriously believe that we’re going to lose everything if we continue on our present course. Then again, what I’ve written will cost me my last Zionist friends, that is, if they are fanatics.” 23 This first...

... but simply embodies preexisting ideas: “In gen- eral, he [Le Bon] derives the importance of leaders from the ideas of which they are themselves fanatical supporters” (MP, 28). According to Freud, Le Bon’s metaphor of herd and herder anticipates the problem of the leader: “The herd instinct leaves...

... want to be provocative, but even if the gentlemen in question had been fanatic Aryans, they still would not have done it.34 Balázs then questioned how the censors could overlook that, in The Birth of a Nation, “a whole, great race of humanity is insulted, slandered, and besmirched...

... passage, just a quote from Eichinger that amounts to the same thing: “The fi nal days tell us a lot about how the mass fanaticism functioned in the regime’s earlier years and how it continued to reign until the bitter end.” 9. Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler (New York: Macmillan, 1947...

... on ousting, allowed a clear distinction between fanatical National Socialists and the professional military who early on had foreseen the defeat of Germany. The fi lm covers the activities of the Abwehr from 1935 to 1945. Cana- ris, who had helped the editor of a banned publication escape...

..., you prob- ably both find so distasteful in me. Judging by your writings I must be a classic example of what you both contemptuously take to be Jewish self-denial, self- deception, even self-hatred. I could easily turn this accusation around, Herr Scholem, and argue that your fanatic dissociation...

... earthquake survivors help each other regardless of social and economical standing. Part 3 takes place the day after the quake, where the citizens of San- tiago gather in a Dominican church, the only church still standing. A fanatical priest interprets the earthquake as a divine punishment and singles...

.... Egoism is wholly condemned, and the capacity for unmediated pleasure is “weakened” if not 160  Wounded Modernism “completely lost.” Bourgeois justice thus assumes an ascetic character, and the idealized leader—from John Calvin to Robespierre—is one who combines a fanatical pursuit...