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racial theory

2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

Thinker

Houston Stewart Chamberlain

British-German racial theorist and son-in-law of Richard Wagner — whose Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899) was the most influential elaboration of Aryan racial theory before Nazism.

philosophycultural criticismracial theory
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Alfred Rosenberg

Nazi ideologist and author of The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930) — the second most important ideological text of Nazism after Mein Kampf, articulating a racial-spiritual worldview centered on Nordic blood and spirit. Hanged at Nuremberg.

political ideologyracial theorynazism
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