Reading List – Minor Field in Intellectual History of the European Right 1850-1950
– Jessica Butler
Primary Sources
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart. Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1913)
Claß, Heinrich. “If I Were Kaiser" [Wenn ich Kaiser wär] (1912).
Ellis, Havelock. The Problem of Race-Regeneration (1911).
- Sexual Inversion
de Gobineau, Arthur. The Inequality of Human Races (1855).
Jünger, Ernst. Storms of Steel (1920).
Jünger, Ernst. On Pain (1934).
Mussolini, Benito. The Doctrine of Fascism (1932).
Nietzsche, Friedrich.
- Genealogy of Morals, Books I and II
- Beyond Good and Evil
Nordau, Max. Degeneration (1892).
Reich, Wilhelm. The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933).
Schmitt, Carl. The Concept of the Political (1927).
Schmitt, Carl. Writings on War.
Schmitt, Carl. The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (1928).
Schmitt, Carl. Political Theology.
Spengler, Oswald. The Decline of the West (1926).
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Secondary
Aschheim, Steven. The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890-1990.
Blinkhorn, Martin. Fascists and Conservatives: The Radical Right and the Establishment
in Twentieth-Century Europe (1990).
Buchanan, Tom and Martin Conway, eds. Political Catholicism in Europe, 19181965 (1996).
Eley, Geoff. Reshaping the German Right (1980).
Gay, Peter. Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968).
Herf, Jeffrey. Reactionary Modernism (1984).
Klemperer, Klems von. Germany's New Conservatism (1957)
Mannheim, Karl. "Conservatism"
Mosse, George. The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third
Reich (1964).
Nolte, Ernst. Three Faces of Fascism (1966)
Pick, Daniel. Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c.1848-1918 (1993).
Remond, Rene. The Right Wing in France: From 1815 to de Gaulle (2008).
Retallack, James. The German Right 1860–1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian
Imagination (2006).
Rogger, Hans and Eugen Weber, eds. The European Right: A Historical Profile (1965).
Schorske, Carl. Fin-de-siecle Vienna (1980).
Smith, Helmut Walser. German Nationalism and Religious Conflict: Culture, Ideology,
Politics, 1870- 1914 (1995).
Stern, Fritz. The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic
Ideology (1974).
Sternhell, Zeev. Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology In France (1995).
Sternhell, Zeev. The Birth of Fascist Ideology (1994).
Theweleit, Klaus. Male Fantasies, 2 vols.
- Vol 1: Women, floods, bodies, history (1987)
- Vol 2: male bodies: psychanalyzing the white terror (1989)
Turda, Marius and Paul Weindling. eds. "Blood and homeland": Eugenics and Racial
Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940 (2007).
Urbach, Karina. European Aristocracies and the Radical Right, 1918-1939 (2007).
Wolin, Richard. The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism
from Nietzsche to Postmodernism (2006).