Aesthetic State II: Applications--German Experience

Reading List (All texts available upon request):

Bishop, Paul. German Political Thought and the Discourse of Platonism: Finding the Way Out of the Cave. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Chytry, Josef. The Aesthetic State: A Quest in Modern German Thought. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989.

Kinser, Bill and Neil Kleinman. The Dream That Was No More a Dream: A Search for Aesthetic Reality in Germany, 1890-1945. New York, NY: Harper Colophon Books/Harper and Row, 1969.

Viereck, Peter. Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler (Expanded Edition). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007.

Williamson, George S. The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Selections from: Goebbels, Joseph. The Goebbels Diaries. Ed. Louis P. Lochner. New York, NY: Charter New York, 1948.

Selections from: Kim, Alan, Ed. Brill’s Companion to German Platonism. Boston, MA: Brill, 2019.