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Franz Borkenau
Franz Borkenau as a witness in the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial in 1946
Born
(1900-12-15)December 15, 1900
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died
May 22, 1957(1957-05-22) (aged 56)
Zurich, Switzerland
Nationality
Austrian (1900–1938) Stateless (1938–1957)
Occupation(s)
Sociologist and journalist
Known for
Pioneering of totalitarianism theory, The Spanish Cockpit
Franz Borkenau (December 15, 1900 – May 22, 1957) was an Austrian writer. Borkenau was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a civil servant. As a university student in Leipzig, his main interests were Marxism and psychoanalysis. Borkenau is known as one of the pioneers of the totalitarianism theory.
FranzBorkenau (December 15, 1900 – May 22, 1957) was an Austrian writer. Borkenau was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a civil servant. As a university...
Borkenau is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: FranzBorkenau (1900–1957), Austrian writer and publicist Moritz Borkenau (1827–1904)...
VII, at 164. A Study of History, Volume 1, Section VII, at 135–139. FranzBorkenau, "Toynbee's Judgment of the Jews: Where the Historian Misread History"...
to have developed into red fascism. The term is often attributed to FranzBorkenau, a key proponent of the theory of totalitarianism (which posits that...
Spanish Cockpit is a personal account of the Spanish Civil War written by FranzBorkenau and published in late 1937. It was based on his two wartime visits to...
the term totalitarianism in the English language was Austrian writer FranzBorkenau in his 1938 book The Communist International, in which he commented...
Berlin in June 1950 were writers, philosophers, critics and historians: FranzBorkenau, Karl Jaspers, John Dewey, Ignazio Silone, Jacques Maritain, James Burnham...
History of Socialism in Russia, 1917–1991 (New York: Free Press, 1995). FranzBorkenau, World Communism (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1962);...
its protagonist George Bowling posits the totalitarian hypotheses of FranzBorkenau, Orwell, Ignazio Silone and Koestler: "Old Hitler's something different...
requisitioned and the forbidden books retired and burned. Austrian author FranzBorkenau was sharply critical of the anarchists in Catalonia. In a book which...
Western Europe were writers, philosophers, critics and historians: FranzBorkenau, Karl Jaspers, John Dewey, Ignazio Silone, James Burnham, Hugh Trevor-Roper...
In Socialism: National or International, first published in 1942, FranzBorkenau described Mazzini as "that impressive Genoese" and "leader of the Italian...
Tide "FranzBorkenau on the Communist International" 22 September 1938 CEJL I, CW XI, OP Review of The Communist International by FranzBorkenau, published...
war, notably "Spilling the Spanish Beans" and a praiseful review of FranzBorkenau's The Spanish Cockpit. Writing from his cottage at Wallington, Hertfordshire...
historian, feminist Thomas Bach (born 1953), lawyer, former fencer FranzBorkenau (1900–1957), social scientist Gottfried Gabriel Bredow (1773–1814),...
socialism towards a form of "elitism" may be attributed to Pareto's ideas. FranzBorkenau, a biographer, argued that Mussolini followed Pareto's policy ideas...
psychologist Franz Exner (1881–1947), criminologist Karl von Frisch (1886–1982), ethologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973 FranzBorkenau (1900–1957)...
philosophical status of the concept: while Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, FranzBorkenau and many others accepted the existence of a collective mind or collective...
exiles from Nazi Germany in Britain that included Julius Braunthal and FranzBorkenau. Her long article "The Underground Struggle in Germany", published under...
Sciences Sociales journal as an assistant to Lucien Febvre. Married to FranzBorkenau, her writings were popularised by Peter Schöttler. Keintzel, Brigitta;...
publicists, collaborating with other left-wing critics of Stalinism such as FranzBorkenau and Margarete Buber-Neumann and emigrants from Eastern Europe. As an...
review of The War in Spain by Ramon Sender, and The Spanish Cockpit by FranzBorkenau) – Left Review, September 1937 “On a Summer's Day” (story) – Lilliput...
intellectuals affirmed most vehemently the need for resistance to communism: FranzBorkenau (member of the Communist Party of Austria until 1929), Sidney Hook (Communist...
(Penguin)) Gordon Bowker, Orwell p. 224 ; Orwell, writing in his review of FranzBorkenau's The Spanish Cockpit in Time and Tide, 31 July 1937, and "Spilling the...
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