In his book The Myth of the State, Ernst Cassirer
A) defended the racial policy of Nazi Germany.
B) explained the rise of Stalin.
C) described Nazism as a culmination of mythical thinking.
D) castigated Mussolini for his failure to restore Italian glory.
E) questioned the future of nation-states as viable political structure.

Question

In his book The Myth of the State, Ernst Cassirer
A) defended the racial policy of Nazi Germany.​
B) explained the rise of Stalin.​
C) described Nazism as a culmination of mythical thinking.
D) castigated Mussolini for his failure to restore Italian glory.​
E) questioned the future of nation-states as viable political structure.​

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In his book The Myth of the State, Ernst Cassirer described Nazism as a culmination of mythical thinking. He argued that the Nazi ideology was not based on rationality but on irrational mythical beliefs and instincts. Cassirer believed that the rise of Nazism was a manifestation of a deeper crisis of modern civilization, which had lost its faith in reason and had fallen back into primitive modes of thought.

In His Book the Myth of the State, Ernst Cassirer