Author: Janeff, Janko [ Janev, Janko (1900-1945)]
Title: Südosteuropa und der deutsche Geist
Description: Berlin, Theodor Fritsch Verlag, 1943. 2.Auflage, orig. wrappers. 21x14cm, 145 pages. Pages browned.. Worn. Pencilled underlinings throughout. Fair condition. ¶ ["Janev was one of the most important right-wing philosophers in interwar Bulgaria. His first essays, published in important cultural periodicals of the period...reflected the pathos of neo-romantic individualism. His intellectual maturity came about under the decisive influences of Hegel and Nietzsche, as well as that of the ideologist of Bulgarian modernism, Dimo Kyorchev (Janev wrote an important text on him and published the first volumes of his works...The second period of his activity, which began in the early 1930s, was related to a shift of interest from individual to collective destiny... He also published a number of books in German on the Balkans. His last books were explicitly connected with, although not representative of, the mainstream of National Socialist geopolitical and philosophical ideas. Marginalized in his own time and during the second half of the 20th century, Janev’s writings attracted a new audience in the 1990s, especially following some new interpretations of his work (in particular by Ivan Elenkov,...and the re-edition of some of his texts...." - from "Janko Janev: The Spirit of the Nation", translated by Zornitsa Dimova-Hristova].

Keywords: Bulgaria, Nazi Germany, National Socialist, World War Two, Balkans, Political History, Right Wing Politics, ,