The Occult Roots of Nazism
The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 is a book by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. It is the "seminal work"[1] on Nazi occultism and Ariosophy. The book also includes some information on Esotericism in Germany and Austria between 1880 and 1945. The book is based on Goodrick-Clarke's 1982 Ph.D. thesis The ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935: Reactionary political fantasy in relation to social anxiety.[2]
Rohan Butler, who had written The Roots of National Socialism in the 1930s, wrote the foreword.
First published in 1985, it was republished as a paperback by New York University Press in 1992 (ISBN 0-8147-3060-4), and more recently republished by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd (ISBN 1-86064-973-4).
The book has been translated into French, Polish, Italian, Russian, Czech, German and Greek.[3]
The German edition features a preface and an additional essay Nationalsozialismus und Okkultismus (National Socialism and Occultism) (15 pages) by H.T. Hakl.
Publication history [edit]
The exact title of the book changed in the 1992 edition. Foreign language editions are also (partly) listed:
- Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke 1985: The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935, Wellingborough, England: The Aquarian Press. ISBN 0-85030-402-4.
- 1992: The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology, New York: New York University Press ISBN 978-0-8147-3060-7
- 2004: The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology, (Expanded with a new Preface) I.B. Tauris & Co. ISBN 1-86064-973-4.
- French edition 1989: Les racines occultistes du nazisme: Les Aryosophistes en Autriche et en Allemagne 1890-1935 ISBN 2-86714-069-2.
- Russian edition 1993: Оккультные корни нацизма
- German edition 1997: Die okkulten Wurzeln des Nationalsozialismus. Graz, Austria: Stocker ISBN 3-7020-0795-4.
- 2. German edition 2000: Graz: Stocker ISBN 3-7020-0795-4.
- 3. German edition 2004: Wiesbaden: Marix-Verlag ISBN 3-937715-48-7.
- Greek edition 2006: ΟΙ ΑΠΟΚΡΥΦΙΣΤΙΚΕΣ ΡΙΖΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΝΑΖΙΣΜΟΥ ISBN 960-8345-85-5
- Czech edition 1998: Okultní kořeny nacismu: Rakouští a němečtí ariosofisté 1890-1935: Tajné árijské kulty a jejich vliv na nacistickou ideologii. Prague: Votobia ISBN 978-80-7220-023-8
- 2. Czech edition 2005: Okultní kořeny nacismu: Tajné árijské kulty a jejich vliv na nacistickou ideologii. Prague: Eminent ISBN 80-7281-278-5
References [edit]
- ^ Statement by Antoine Faivre (on the back cover of the 2004 edition)
- ^ "Scientific Commons". En.scientificcommons.org. Retrieved 2012-09-13.
- ^ German edition, front jacket
External links [edit]
- Article by Goodrick-Clarke in Lapis Magazine, Issue 5.
- Magic Realism - A book review by William Main, taken from the December 1994 issue of "Fidelity" Magazine
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