Daniel E. Gasman (1933 – 19 December 2012) was an American historian at John Jay College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York. He earned his PhD from University of Chicago in modern intellectual history. His most famous book is The Scientific Origins of National Socialism, which has been both praised and criticized by scholars. His second book, Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology, has been reviewed in journals.
Books
- 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
- Barry, Mehler (2012). "A prominent historian of science dies and no one takes notice". History News Network. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
- ^ 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
- Daniel Gasman CV
- From Haeckel to Hitler: The Anatomy of a Controversy
- http://www.ferris.edu/isar/academic-controversies/gasman.htm