Welcome to the homepage for:
Richard Weikart
Department of History
California State University, Stanislaus
e-mail: rweikart@csustan.edu
VITA - for further information on my professional life
For more on my philosophy of life.
BOOKSHitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany - (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein - (International Scholars Publications, 1999) - The entire book is available on-line via this link.
ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
"So Many Different Dietrich Bonhoeffers," Trinity Journal 32 NS (2011): 69-81.
"Was Darwin or Spencer the Father of Laissez-Faire Social Darwinism?" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (special issue on social Darwinism) 71 (2009): 20-28.
"Progress through Racial Extermination: Social Darwinism, Eugenics, and Pacifism in Germany, 1860-1918," German Studies Review 26 (2003): 273-94.
"Darwinism and Death: Devaluing Human Life in Germany, 1860-1920," Journal of the History of Ideas 63 (2002): 323-344.
"Laissez-Faire Social Darwinism and Individualist Competition in Darwin and Huxley," The European Legacy 3 (1998): 17-30.
"A Recently Discovered Darwin Letter on Social Darwinism," Isis 86 (1995): 609-11.
"Marx, Engels, and the Abolition of the Family," History of European Ideas 18 (1994): 657-672.
"The Origins of Social Darwinism in Germany, 1859-1895," Journal of the History of Ideas 54 (1993): 469-488.
"Scripture and Myth in Dietrich Bonhoeffer," Fides et Historia 25 (1993): 12-25.
ON-LINE ARTICLES:
Metaxas's Counterfeit Bonhoeffer (2010)
"Does Darwinism Devalue Human Life?" (2004)
"Killing Them Kindly: Lessons from the Euthanasia Movement" (2004)
"The Roots of Hitler's Evil" (2001)
"The Dehumanizing Impact of Modern Thought" (2008)
ON-LINE LECTURE:"From Darwin to Hitler: Does Darwinism Devalue Human Life?" (2004)
GERMAN HISTORY SOURCES - a sourcebook to use in courses on Modern Germany