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Germany is held up as the model between the two extremes. In the same book, Moeller van den Bruck advocated an expressly anti-Western and anti-imperialist philosophy of the state (Staatstheorie), which attempted to bridge the gap between nationalism and concepts of social justice.
In 1923 German cultural critic Arthur Moeller van den Bruck published Das Dritte Reich (1923; “The Third Empire,” or “Reich”). Written at a time when the Weimar Republic was struggling to contain revolutionary forces from both the right and left, Moeller’s treatise espoused a conservative doctrine that called for the elevation of ...
No more glorious end could be conceived for a great people than to perish in a world war where a world in arms overcame one single country. German nationalism is in its way an expression of German universalism, and turns its thought to Europe as a whole, not in order—as Goethe in his middle period expressed it—to “lose itself in ...
Sep 2, 2013 · The book was Das Dritte Reich, and its author, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, was a German intellectual, then in his forties, who had a theory purporting to explain Germany's downfall as well as a vision of her recovery and return to a leading position in the world.
- Gerhard Krebs
- 1941
According to van den Bruck, "Our Second Reich was a Little-German Reich which we must consider only as a stepping stone on our path to a Greater German Reich". Van den Bruck called for the Weimar Republic to be replaced through a new revolution from the right.
- Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
- 1923
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck was a German cultural critic whose book Das Dritte Reich (1923; “The Third Empire,” or “Reich”) provided Nazi Germany with its dramatic name. Moeller left Germany after the turn of the century (to avoid military service) and lived in France, Italy, and Scandinavia.
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Germany's Third Empire. Written in 1923, when Germany was in the throes of revolutionary demands from both the Left and the Right, Moeller van den Bruck envisioned a Germany that was radical,...
