| Titre | Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), un eugéniste social-démocrate | |
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| Auteur | Liliane Crips | |
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Revue | L'Homme et la société |
| Numéro | no 87, 1er trimestre 1988 La démocratie en défaut | |
| Page | 104-114 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Liliane Crips, Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), a social-democratic eugenist
In the present context of « uncertainty » as regards the Nazi crimes, the concealing or the condemning of the work of the celebrated German sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, illustrates the difficulty of discerning precisely to what extent scientism, which was very common at the beginning of this century in Europe intellectual circles, played a role in the move of a whole society towards barbarism. In particular, the question arises as regards eugenics which developed originally amongst the « modernists », in reaction to submission to the « intangible » biological laws put forward by the churches. Now Hirschfeld, amongst the personalities most detested by the Nazis under the Weimar Republic is today accused by some of having contributed to preparing public opinion for the aberrations of national-socialist eugenics. On the contrary, we shall attempt here to demonstrate the humanist nature of his theoretical and practical positions. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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