In search of the 'whole man' : soul-man-world in the National Socialist Weltanschauung

This paper examines the Nazi attempt to form a new type of political subject : an ideal type of 'whole man' that would provide an anternative both to Cartesian dualism and to the materialistic vision of a 'man a machine'. The paper sets out to elucidate the semantic complexities and the symbolic structures sedimented in the biological language of the Nazis, and thus to examine the ideological and epistemological mechanisms that rendered the apotheosis of national collectivism in the Third Reich. Includes references.