Talk:Intellectual history

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' Martin Heidegger Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Husserl, Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas, Karl Löwith, Herbert Marc, Claude Levi-Strauss, Martin Buber, Edmund Husserl, religious and cultural values that allowed Nazism to achieve intellectual prominence in Germany and France in the 1930s and 1940s.'

I found that in the article. Does that make sense? It's not really a complete sentance, and the arkward way it is worded almost implies that Nazism was supported by the Exitentialists, which im fairly certain it was not. On the contrary, most of the people listed above fought against the Nazis during WW2, right?

It seems like meaningless jargon to me. It's also worth noting that Husserl and a few others in that list had little to nothing to do with existentialism, aside from being important for subsequent generations of intellectuals. --Tedpennings 04:26, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

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Removed: "religious and cultural values that allowed Nazism to achieve intellectual prominence in Germany and France in the 1930s and 1940s" as the idea that existentialism "allowed" the rise of Nazism (as if the few existential thinkers had anywhere near that kind of power - especially before WW2, when they were largely unknown). Perhaps a case can be made for the statement, but it is at least extraordinarily loaded.124.197.9.131 13:27, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

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Under "Modernism," "Beard" leads to the article about the facial hair. I assume the writer means someone named "Beard," such as perhaps Charles A. Beard. If it were obvious, I would make the alteration myself, but I do not know who was supposed to have been indicated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.164.214.138 (talk) 17:45, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Seems a likely choice; he and his wife are the only Beards in List of historians. Fixed. - Fayenatic (talk) 20:30, 28 September 2007 (UTC)