INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. FOREWORD. CONSERVATISM: NEW AND OLD vii
3. PREFACE xxiii
4. CONTENTS xxv
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BACKGROUND
7. CHAPTER I. TOWARD A DEFINITION OF CONSERVATISM 17
8. CHAPTER II. THE GENESIS OF THE DILEMMA 33
9. CHAPTER III. THE REVIVAL OF GERMAN CONSERVATISM IN THE YOUTH MOVEMENT AND DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR 43
10. PART II. THE NEO-CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT
11. I. THE REVOLUTION OF 1918-1919 AND ITS CONSERVATIVE ASPECTS 71
12. CHAPTER II. THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC 92
13. CHAPTER III. THE LATER YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC 117
14. CHAPTER IV. NATIONAL BOLSHEVISM AND THE NEO-CONSERVATIVES 139
15. PART III. THREE MAJOR EXPRESSIONS OF NEO-CONSERVATISM
16. CHAPTER I. THE THIRD REICH OF MOELLER VAN DEN BRUCK 153
17. CHAPTER II. THE PESSIMISM OF OSWALD SPENGLER 170
18. CHAPTER III. THE NIHILISM OF THE EARLY ERNST JÜNGER 180
19. PART IV. NEO-CONSERVATISM AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM
20. CHAPTER I. THE FAILURE OF THE FINAL TEST: THE CONVERGING OF THE TWO MOVEMENTS 191
21. CHAPTER II. THE “GOD THAT FAILED” 202
22. CONCLUSION 220
23. POSTSCRIPT, 1968 227
24. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY 232
25. INDEX 249