Gehlen’s philosophical anthropology supplied a justification for authoritarian discipline.

Evidence

Arnold Gehlen first achieved world recognition with his main work, Man, in 1940.76 This gave an anthropological justification to the glorification of discipline and order, so that his collaboration with Nazism seemed to be as little a matter of chance as Heidegger’s. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 566

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the book’s earlier treatment of Heidegger’s Nazism; Gehlen belongs in the same file. — connects to: Philosophers have historically served to justify established authority; Philosophical style itself can be judged unfree and dictatorial — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 609
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Philosophers have historically served to justify established authority; Philosophical style itself can be judged unfree and dictatorial — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 609

Broader Connections

• Philosophical style itself can be judged unfree and dictatorial #complicates (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 609