Biologia Hitlera
Hitler’s Biology

Summary/Abstract: Pospiszyl explores the double genitive in the formulation “Hitler’s biology”. On the one hand these words signifies the Nazis’ attempt to apply Darwinism to the political order; on the other hand it refers to the biology of the physical body of Hitler as an individual Nazi who tried to subdue his own corporality. The tension between these two ways of understanding biology – which Klaus Theweleit studied with reference to the diaries of German Fascists working to discipline their own bodies – inspires a different way of translating Darwin’s biological vocabulary to the political order than the one proposed by the Nazis. Now politics does not naturalise corporality (dividing it into masculine and feminine) but becomes an expression of the degeneration of nature itself (in that it creates countless models of gender).

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