Hitler's ethic : the Nazi pursuit of evolutionary progress / Richard Weikart.
- Weikart, Richard, 1958-
- Date:
- 2009
- Books
About this work
Description
In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitlers evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race. This ethic underlay or influenced almost every major feature of Nazi policy: eugenics (i.e., measures to improve human heredity, including compulsory sterilization), euthanasia, racism, population expansion, offensive warfare, and racial extermination. - Publisher.
Publication/Creation
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Physical description
xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contributors
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Hitler as moral crusader and liar -- The cult of evolutionary progress -- Racial struggle -- Morally upright Aryans and immoral Jews -- Hitler's socialism : building the people's community -- Sexual morality and population expansion -- Controlling reproduction to improve the human species -- The struggle for living space : war and expansionism -- Justifying murder and genocide.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJL.37.AA9Open shelves
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ISBN
- 0230618073
- 9780230618077