the Third Humanism is a term signifying the holistic, national pedagogical movement in reaction to the criticism of modernity in the legacy of Nietzsche. A new meaning for the present and a future Germanness was to arise on the basis of a vitalistically understood philhellenism or Greekness through the amalgamation of aesthetic, culture-critical and political considerations, conveyed through a humanistic paedeia. Due to its reference to the paradigms of the period around 1800, this Third Humanism is part of the reception history of Weimar classicism; due to its provision of possible links to Nazi educational policy it belongs to the mental prehistory of the Third Reich.

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Barbara Stiewe, Universität Marburg.