КУЛТУРА ПРОТИВ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИЈЕ. ПОЛИТИЧКА СХВАТАЊА ТОМАСА МАНА ТОКОМ ПРВОГ СВЕТСКОГ РАТА
CULTURE AGAINST CIVILIZATION. THOMAS MANN’S POLITICAL IDEAS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Summary/Abstract: In this paper author has analyzed political ideas of German writer Thomas Mann during the First World War. In his political writings Mann tried to give a contribution to the common war efforts of German Reich and legitimation of its war aims. In his most important work from the war time Reflections of an Unpolitical Man (1918), Mann interpreted the war as a struggle for the preservation of German spiritual culture against materialistic and plutocratic civilization of the European West. Considering that Germany’s particular feature was its position in the middle of Europe, between the liberal West and the autocratic East, Mann argued that conservativism embodied the real essence of the German nation. Rejecting Enlightenment and liberal democracy he was trying to defend the semifeudal Hohenzollern monarchy. In that way, Mann became one of the most important founders of the “conservative revolution” in Germany after the World War One.

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