Open AccessTeaching Nazi Culture
Author(s) -
Patty Lee Parmalee
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
radical teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1941-0832
pISSN - 0191-4847
DOI - 10.5195/rt.2014.149
Subject(s) - nazism , distancing , ideology , socialism , capitalism , sociology , subject (documents) , aesthetics , philosophy , political science , law , medicine , covid-19 , politics , communism , library science , disease , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Nazi Culture would seem at first to be a very esoteric subject to teach to the rather practical-minded and not very cosmopolitan students of a northern New Jersey state college. But of course it is really a distancing technique, a Verfremdungseffekt a la Brecht. Teaching fascism is not really teaching fascism per se, but an angle for teaching capitalism and socialism. And teaching Nazi culture is an angle for teaching some of the purposes of capitalist ideology