Nazism required explaining through changes in human character, not psychology

Evidence

We have made an attempt to theoretically understand the growth of Nazism not only in terms of the objective socio-economic forces that engendered it, but also in terms of menof the human, or rather inhuman climate that made it possible. This is not meant to be `psychological’. I am not a social psychologist nor are the members of our Institute with whom I am preparing this project. It appears to me that, in our epoch, men are undergoing much deeper changes than could be expressed psychologically. It is as if the substance of man itself had changed with the fundaments of our society . — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 296

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the Institute’s ‘anthropological’ diagnosis of Nazism from social psychology, a distinction the reader needs to track across the whole Frankfurt corpus.
• XREF: Directly relates to the reader’s material on fascism resting on long-term anthropological reshaping of social character.