Traders and Heroes: Patriotic Reflections
| Traders and Heroes: Patriotic Reflections | |
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| Author(s) | Werner Sombart, Alexander Jacob (Foreword) |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Politics, Society |
| Publisher | Arktos |
| Publication year | 2021 |
| Pages | 140 |
| ISBN | 1914208331 |
Traders and Heroes: Patriotic Reflections is a book by German social scientist and economist Werner Sombart, published in English by Arktos in 2021. The English translation from the German was done by Alexander Jacob, PhD. The work's original German title, published in 1915, was Händler und Helden.
Publisher description
"Werner Sombart’s Traders and Heroes, published in 1915 during World War I, is an insightful and concise treatise on the differences in national character between the English and the Germans. The bourgeois trade mentality of the English clashes with the heroic and sacrificial one of the Germans. While the former only desire individual enrichment and creating the necessary global preconditions for it, the latter crave unity with the folk in life and death, so that they become the perfect physical expression of the national soul.
The English want to avoid war because it is bad for business. The Germans, on the other hand, crave war because it tests their spirit and liberates them from the mundaneness of everyday existence while simultaneously affirming the axiom that the whole of the nation is paramount to the individual self.
Like the Jews of yore, the Germans of Sombart’s time are universally despised because of their insistence on their uniqueness. Sombart argues that Germans should justifiably be proud of their superiority and as a result need not feel shame looking down on other peoples."[1]
Contents
Foreword by Alexander Jacob
Introduction: The Religious War
Part One: English Traders
The Features of the English Mind
English Science
The English State and English Culture
Part Two: German Heroism
The German Mind
The German Idea of the Fatherland
The German Idea of the State
German Militarism
Part Three: The Mission of the German Nation
Life before the War
Desperate Rescue Attempts
The Redemption from the Evil
We and the Others
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Publication data
- Traders and Heroes: Patriotic Reflections Werner Sombart, 2021, Arktos ISBN-10: 1914208331 ISBN-13: 978-1-914208-33-1
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