Peter Viereck
Sign in to saveAlso known as Peter Robert Edwin Viereck, Peter R. Viereck, Peter Robert Viereck
American historian and poet (1916-2006)
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- 26
Top works
- Meta-Politics The Roots of the Nazi Mind (Meta-politics)
- Rare STRIKE THROUGH THE MASK! Viereck, PeterCharles Scribner's Sons - 1950
- First morning
- Metapolitics from the romantics to Hitler
- Conservatism Revisited
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5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 84,878x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,188x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,716x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,302x
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Quotes
- “Germany was historically ahead of us in being ripe for Fascism. We in America can expect similar developments from similar causes. These causes are more basic and world-wide than Versailles; an overmechanized and overspecialized industrial society is spawning mass men, instead of responsible, self-disciplined individuals rooted in the universal moral values.”
- “The motive for tyranny is not economics but will to power. Behind power, such motives as vanity, inferiority complex, sadism, fear, frustration, and just plain cussedness must also be considered.”
- “Without inner psychological liberty, outer civil liberties are not quite enough. We can talk civil liberties, prosperity, democracy with the tongues of men and angels, but it is merely a case of "free from what?" and not "free for what?" if we use this freedom for no other purpose than to commit television or go lusting after supermarkets.”
- “In Nietzsche and [Jakob] Burckhardt the German language had its last great voices of the old Goethean individualism amid the triumphant Bismarck era of statism and mechanized material power. . . . Nietzsche remains unequaled in anticipating out ever-increasing need today for the full, unmechanized personality.”
- “What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return – every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.”
- “Something or other is certainly being revived in America today, judging by all these countless examples, but is it religion or religiosity? Religion is demanding, unglib; it combines the hardest spiritual discipline with the most shattering spiritual experience. Therefore, the Overadjusted man prefers religiosity; it is easy, painless, provides a warm, comfortable feeling. Such is ever the fate of values when made bourgeois.”
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- 1916-08-05
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- 2006-05-13
- birth name
- Peter Robert Edwin Viereck
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1916 births2006 deaths20th-century American historians20th-century American male writers20th-century American poetsAmerican anti-communistsAmerican literary criticsAmerican male non-fiction writersAmerican male poetsAmerican people of German descentAmerican political writersHarvard College alumniHarvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumniHistorians from New York (state)Horace Mann School alumniMount Holyoke College facultyPulitzer Prize for Poetry winners