The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic
| Author | Roger Woods |
|---|---|
| Published | 1996 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — Roger Woods’ 1996 study of the Weimar-era ‘Conservative Revolution’ writers, Jünger, Spengler and others, and the tensions in their anti-democratic thought.
Published by Macmillan (UK) and St. Martin’s Press (US) in 1996. Woods, Reader in German at the University of Nottingham and author of a book on Ernst Jünger, examines the loose movement of nationalist intellectuals who rejected the Weimar Republic.
Chapters cover the movement and the First World War, Nietzsche as “mentor” (including Spengler’s use of him) and the political culture of Weimar. The book’s approach is to read the movement through its internal tensions and contradictions rather than as a single coherent doctrine.
What it is: an academic monograph from a university historian of German thought. In copyright.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
184 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.