Abstract

The article investigates the relationship between Friedrich Gogarten’s theological reflection and the new right-wing culture of the Weimar Republic (‘conservative revolution’), during the chronological period that opens between the November revolution and the mid-twenties. In the analysis of the texts and archival documents, conducted in a historical-cultural perspective, the critical position of Gogarten towards the authoritarian culture of the new nationalism and the organicistic mysticism of the Volk emerges. This analysis challenges the widespread thesis according to which Gogarten’s arrival in Nazism would represent the necessary outcome of his previous political theology.

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