Sentences with phrase «german irrationalism»

Hitler — the «bitter flower of German irrationalism,» as Hans - Jürgen Syberberg once put it — may still lurk beyond the horizon, but the seeds of fascism have already been sown in society's unquestioning adherence to power strictures.

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At a deeper level the lack of interest in critical reflective reason may be a form of anti-intellectualism but the conscious irrationalism of groups such as the «romantic German youth movement is quite missing.

Theodor Adorno's 1947 «Theses Against Occultism» showed Adorno's knowledge of actual occultism to be limited, and he tended to lump both ancient and modern occult movements together and link them to German National Socialism and «irrationalism.»