Daniel E. Gasman (1933 – 19 December 2012)[1] was an American historian at John Jay College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York.[2] He earned his PhD from University of Chicago in modern intellectual history.[2] His most famous book is The Scientific Origins of National Socialism,[3] which has been both praised[4][5][6] and criticized[7] by scholars. His second book, Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology, has been reviewed in journals.[8][9][10][11]
Books[edit]
- The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League (London and New York: Macdonald and American Elsevier, 1971) ISBN 0444196641
- Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology (New York: Peter Lang: 1998) ISBN 0820441082
References[edit]
- ^ Barry, Mehler (2012). "A prominent historian of science dies and no one takes notice". History News Network. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
- ^ a b Gasman, Daniel (2013). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
- ^ For example, see Simon Conway Morris, Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe (Cambridge: CUP, 2003) or GJ Stein, "Biological science and the roots of Nazism," American Scientist, Vol. 76, No. 1 1988.
- ^ Robert Herzstein, The Scientific Origins of National Socialism by Daniel Gasman", The Journal of Modern History Vol. 45, No. 1 (Mar., 1973), pp. 145-147
- ^ C. A. Culotta, "The Scientific Origins of National Socialism. Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League by Daniel Gasman", Isis, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Dec., 1972), pp. 587-588
- ^ Ralph H. Bowen, "The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League by Daniel Gasman," American Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 3 (Jun., 1973), pp. 711-712
- ^ Richards, Robert J.; "Ernst Haeckel's Alleged Anti-Semitism and Contributions to Nazi Biology"
- ^ Barry Mehler, "Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology by Daniel Gasman," Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 207-209
- ^ Paul Weindling, "Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology by Daniel Gasman," The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Mar., 2002), pp. 117-118
- ^ Roger Griffin, "Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology by Daniel Gasman," The English Historical Review, Vol. 116, No. 467 (Jun., 2001), pp. 683-685
- ^ Alexander De Grand, "Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology by Daniel Gasman," American Historical Review, Vol. 105, No. 3 (Jun., 2000), pp. 883-884
External links[edit]
- Daniel Gasman CV
- From Haeckel to Hitler: The Anatomy of a Controversy
- http://www.ferris.edu/isar/academic-controversies/gasman.htm
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