The rule of the inferior

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The rule of the inferior was a political and philosophical program of the writer Edgar Jung . The book was first published in 1927 under the title The rule of the inferior. Their disintegration and their replacement . A second, completely revised edition with more than double the size and substantial shifts in content appeared in 1930 under the expanded title The rule of the inferior. Its disintegration and its replacement by a new kingdom . A third edition, identical to the second, appeared in 1931.

The book, which was published by the Deutsche Rundschau publishing house, is today considered to be one of the most important works of the so-called Conservative Revolution and one of the most influential publications in the camp of the intellectual right against the existence of the parliamentary-democratic system of the Weimar Republic . The title of the book was a much-cited political catchphrase in the second half of the 1920s and 1930s. The book reached three editions between 1927 and 1931 and was translated into English by Alexander Jacobi under the title Rule of the Inferiour in 1995.

On February 21, 1928, Jung informed Rudolf Pechel in a letter that the industrialist Paul Reusch wanted to finance the second edition with 15 to 20,000 marks, and the Reusch, "whose hand copy is completely torn and provided with marginal notes", is “preparing and Clarification of some questions of doubt ”. On January 14, 1929, he told Pechel that the industrialist Fritz Springorum had promised 10,000 marks for the second edition.

literature

  • Joachim Petzold: "Edgar Julius Jung and his book" The rule of the inferior "", in: Ders. Conservative Theorists of German Fascism , 1978, pp. 217–229.

Individual evidence

  1. Compare the specimen copies DNB 362502269 , DNB 362502277 and DNB 931746892 at the German National Library
  2. ^ Petzold, p. 226 and p. 229.