Kommentar zu Aurel Kolnai "Die grundlegenden Prinzipien der NS-Ideologie"

Abstract

Aurel Kolnai (1900–1973) was a moral and political philosopher who in 1938 published 'The War against the West', a critical study of Nazi Socialist ideology. Because the book sold well and received very good reviews Kolnai was asked by his publisher, Victor Gollancz, to give two lectures at the Left Book Club summer school in August 1939, one of which under the headline of 'The pivotal principles of NS ideology' covered main topics of his book. This handwritten manuscript is published here for the first time. The Hannah Arendt Institute is planning a historical-critical German edition of Kolnai's 'The War against the West'." (author's abstract)