Rudolph Binion (1927–2011)
Author of Frau Lou : Nietzsche's Wayward Disciple
Works by Rudolph Binion
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- Birthdate
- 1927-01-18
- Date of death
- 2011-05-19
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Education
- Columbia University
- Occupations
- Professor of History, Brandeis University
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Hitler among the Germans by Rudolph Binion
Binion's book has been out for some time, now. I'm not sure that anybody even bothers with it anymore. The field of study, psychohistory, was supposedly a coming trend back in the 1970s. And the Hitler book business was among the first to cash in, with Binion's study and with Helm Stierlin's Adolf Hitler: a Family Perspective. Neither was very convincing. Not as history. Not as psychology. Not as biography. I also seem to remember that Robert G. L. Waite has a study attempting a similar sort of analysis. This really is an area of historical biography that belongs in the dustbin of history.… (more)
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- Works
- 8
- Members
- 75
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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