Date of Award
8-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
Committee Member
Dr. Michael Meng, Committee Chair
Committee Member
Dr. Steven Marks
Committee Member
Dr. Stephanie Barczewski
Abstract
This thesis is about postwar interpretations of National Socialism. Its central aim is to contextualize Hannah Arendt as a major thinker and historian of Nazism. This thesis examines the Sonderweg or "special path" interpretation, as well as the critique of modernity, or what I refer to as the “dark modernity†thesis. It ultimately situates Arendt within the dark modernity thesis and notes her affinity to other scholarship within this interpretation of German history.
Recommended Citation
Harris, Kacie, "Hannah Arendt and Postwar Interpretations of National Socialism" (2018). All Theses. 2935.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2935