{"id":26584,"date":"2021-01-19T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T10:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/?p=26584"},"modified":"2021-01-19T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T10:04:50","slug":"explain-and-evaluate-walter-benjamins-statement-made-in-1936-about-the-aestheticization-of-politics-under-german-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/19\/explain-and-evaluate-walter-benjamins-statement-made-in-1936-about-the-aestheticization-of-politics-under-german-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"Explain and evaluate Walter Benjamin\u2019s statement (made in 1936) about the \u201caestheticization of politics\u201d under German fascism."},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h4>Explain and evaluate Walter Benjamin\u2019s statement (made in 1936) about the \u201caestheticization of politics\u201d under German fascism.<\/h4>\n<p>Lesson 4: Hitler and the Aestheticization of Politics<br \/>\nLesson Essay<br \/>\nWhen you can accomplish the learning objectives for this lesson, you should begin work on the lesson essay described below. You may use any assigned readings, your notes, and other course-related materials to complete this assignment. Be sure to reread theessay grading criteria on the Grades and Assessments page.<br \/>\nThis essay should be about 750 words long, typed double space with one-inch margins on the sides. It is worth 100 points and it should address the following:<br \/>\nExplain and evaluate Walter Benjamin\u2019s statement (made in 1936) about the \u201caestheticization of politics\u201d under German fascism. What did he refer to and why have critics since then both repeated the statement and called it cryptic at the same time? What, if any, is the relevance of this statement for our own culture today, particular with regard to our use of media technology?<br \/>\nLearning Objectives<br \/>\nAfter completing this lesson, you should be able to do the following:<br \/>\nExplain why the German philosopher Walter Benjamin referred to the aestheticization of politics in Nazi Germany.<br \/>\nSummarize various theories that seek to explain Hitler\u2019s appeal (e.g., structuralist, intentionalist, general field, and hidden variant theories).<br \/>\nDistinguish between fact and legend in Hitler\u2019s various biographical accounts.<br \/>\nEvaluate the seminal role of Leni Riefenstahl\u2019s propaganda film Triumph of the Will (1934).<br \/>\nCommentary<br \/>\nWas Hitler Great?<br \/>\nThe German author and journalist Joachim Fest caused an uproar in 1973, when he introduced his massive 1,200-page biography of Adolf Hitler with the provocative question whether or not one should call Hitler great\u2014the same way historians refer to Alexander the Great or the great Napoleon. After all, he argued, these and other statesmen had caused immense bloodshed, war, and famine. Like Hitler, they were responsible for inconceivable pain and suffering during their time, yet nobody seemed to object to them being remembered as great men. Needless to say, Fest quickly rejected his own idea in the following pages, but he had struck a nerve with historians and the general public alike, highlighting the degree to which Hitler\u2019s crimes stood apart from others in human history. To this very day, many critics still insist on the historical singularity of Nazi crimes that cannot\u2014indeed must not!\u2014be compared with other events before or since. The reason, they argue, is not only the unprecedented extent of World War II and the staggering number of Nazi victims, but also the machine-like effectiveness and precision with which the genocide of the Jews was administered.<br \/>\nThere are, of course, numerous theories trying to explain how all of this had become possible, and a number of them focus on the charisma of the f\u00fchrer as the key element. In his book Explaining Hitler (1999), Ron Rosenbaum distinguishes between what he calls \u201cgeneral field theories\u201d and \u201chidden variant theories.\u201d The first approach concentrates on the general, overall situation in Germany during the 1920s and early 1930s. These critics argue that any populist demagogue like Hitler (and not necessarily Hitler himself) would have sufficed to bring about Nazism. In their view, the rise of German fascism was a structural phenomenon overdetermined by a variety of historical factors (modernization, economic crisis, German humiliation after World War I, etc.) that owed nothing to the person Adolf Hitler. Rather, Hitler was merely a symptom of the German situation at the time.<br \/>\nThe other theories, by contrast, try to find some hidden variable that would explain why Hitler and none other emerged at the center of the Nazi movement. The psychologist C.G. Jung, for example, argued that Hitler\u2019s power was not political, but magic, in so far as he incarnated people\u2019s dream of a powerful German nation. Jung saw Hitler as a seer, as a kind of mythical medicine man able to mesmerize an entire Volk. Other psychoanalytic studies have focused more on the role of sexuality. Susan Sontag, an eminent writer and cultural critic, sought to unveil the erotic appeal of Nazi symbols and paraphernalia, while others searched for some hidden sexual secret in Hitler\u2019s youth that would be able to account for his later pathologies (both personal and political).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/orders\/ordernow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTyj99p60XCLyLk1htB7-1neRt8-2QdnenNlQ&usqp=CAU\"target=\"_http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/orders\/ordernow\"\/><\/center><p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explain and evaluate Walter Benjamin\u2019s statement (made in 1936) about the \u201caestheticization of politics\u201d under German fascism. Lesson 4: Hitler and the Aestheticization of Politics Lesson Essay When you can accomplish the learning objectives for this lesson, you should begin work on the lesson essay described below. 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