Oswald Menghin: Science and Politics in the Age of Extremes

Robert Obermair

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Oswald Menghin

Science and Politics in the Age of Extremes

Robert Obermair

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The fundamental idea of this book is to show – based on the example of Oswald Menghin, Minister of Education of the National Socialist Austrian “Anschluss”-government, and the networks surrounding him – how science and politics were interwoven in Austria in the first half of the 20^th century and how the ideas and networks created in that milieu outlasted the alleged caesurae of this period and found continuation in post-war South America. As Menghin traversed an astonishing number of political upheavals and changes – time after time in exalted positions –, his biography may be considered as paradigmatic for the Age of Extremes.

The following aspects form the core interest of this book: (1) Menghin’s position in the political and scientific field, as well as the interconnection between these spheres. (2) The transnational entanglement between the two central areas of Menghin’s geographic spheres of action. (3) Continuities and changes both in Menghin’s biography and in a broader political and scientific context in Austria and Argentina. (4) Menghin’s scope of action and the extent of his responsibility for crucial and often dire developments in all these facets.

Information zu Autoren / Herausgebern

Robert Obermair, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

Fachgebiete

(English)

Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Copyrightjahr: 2024
Zielgruppe: Historians of contemporary history, transnational history and the history of science, archaeologists and prehistorians
Seiten
- Frontmatter: 8
- Inhalt: 675
Abbildungen
- Abbildungen: 36
- Tabellen: 0
Schlagworte: Zeitgeschichte; Tätergeschichte; Nationalsozialismus

eBook

Geplante Veröffentlichung: 31. Dezember 2023
ISBN: 9783111057309

Gebunden

Geplante Veröffentlichung: 31. Dezember 2023
ISBN: 9783111053202