Louis Dupeux

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Louis Charles Victor Dupeux (* 1931 in Châteauroux ; † 2002 in Strasbourg ) was a French historian and Germanist .

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Dupeux worked as a high school teacher in Morocco and in various cities in France. In 1968 he came to Strasbourg. In 1974 he completed his habilitation with Jacques Droz at the Paris Sorbonne with the work Stratégie communiste et dynamique conservatrice: essai sur les différents sens de l'expression national-bolchevisme en Allemagne, sous la République de Weimar (1919-1933) , which 1985 on suggestion by Kurt Sontheimer was translated into German by Richard Kirchhoff.

Louis Dupeux became a professor at the Université Robert-Schuman (URS or Strasbourg III) and at the Center for German Studies in Strasbourg. He was a leading expert on the history of the Weimar Republic and the “ Third Reich ” and did pioneering work in the historical development of the cultural climate of the interwar period in Germany, including the so-called “ Conservative Revolution ” and “ National Bolshevism ”. His concept of culture includes political culture as well as religion , art and intellectuals . At the Center d'études germaniques in Strasbourg , he gathered historians, Germanists and philosophers in an interdisciplinary working group on the German “Conservative Revolution”.

His approach to the analysis of German nationalism from a French perspective was primarily based on the history of ideas and thus differed methodologically from contemporary attempts to explain the rise of National Socialism , which were more socially and structurally oriented . The latter he defined as " racial totalitarianism " or idéocratie totalitaire ( "totalitarian idea rule") and recognized the ideological anchors primarily in German idealism since Fichte , but also in the German Romanticism . He dealt intensively with conservative thinkers such as Ernst Niekisch or Ernst Jünger and, with a view to the path from nationalism to National Socialism, especially with Alfred Rosenberg . He was particularly interested in the naturalistic elements of Nazi ideology that he described as “religious”, including anti-Semitism .

He drew a sum of his findings in 1989 in his Histoire culturelle de l'Allemagne , which was reissued in 2001 and traces the cultural developments in Germany from the November Revolution to the early days of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Publications

  • National Bolchevisme: stratégie communiste et dynamique conservatrice. 2 vol., H. Champion, Paris 1979 (publication of the 1974 defended habilitation thesis).
    • “National Bolshevism” in Germany 1919–1933. Communist strategy and conservative dynamics. German by Richard Kirchhoff, Beck, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-406-30444-3 (German translation of the habilitation thesis).
  • Histoire culturelle de l'Allemagne, 1919-1960 (= Questions ). PUF , Paris 1989, ISBN 2-13-042573-9 .
  • (as ed. :) La "Révolution conservatrice" allemande sous la république de Weimar (= Histoire des idées, théorie politique et recherches en sciences sociales ). Editions Kimé, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-908212-18-8 (files from the colloquia of the study group on the “Conservative Revolution” from March 20-21 , 1981 and March 15-17, 1984 in Strasbourg).
  • Aspects du fondamentalisme national en Allemagne de 1890 à 1945 et essais complémentaires (= Les mondes germaniques ). Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 2001, ISBN 2-86820-184-9 (anthology with 19 articles by Dupeux from 1974 to 2000 and an introduction by the author).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dupeux, Louis (1931-2002) . Directory of persons of the BnF , retrieved in July 2020.
  2. ^ A b Review by Patrick Moreau in: Revue française de science politique 31 (1981), issue 1, pp. 265–266.
personal data
SURNAME Dupeux, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dupeux, Louis Charles Victor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Chateauroux
DATE OF DEATH 2002
Place of death Strasbourg