This article redresses the interpretative lacunae of historians’ conceptions of Nazi racism by overcoming their attempts to comprehend it from either a secular/scientific or a religious/theological perspective. Drawing on a variety of anthropological, philosophical, and political-theoretical works, the article illustrates how Nazi racial ideas were formulated not only in accordance with the latest discoveries in the field of human heredity, but also in correspondence to contemporary debates over secularization, value-free science, and biological determinism. It argues that the Nazi conception of race constituted a new form of religiosity, which did not draw on supernatural beliefs or theological narratives, but rather on vitalist-oriented metaphysics, shifting the object of faith from the transcendent realm of God to the immanent sphere of racial inwardness. Redefining faith in vitalist-existentialist terms corresponded with the Nazi aspiration to overcome the fragmentation of modernity, overturn the nihilistic threat posed by materialist society, and carry out a spiritual renaissance built upon immanent-biological foundations.

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种族的形而上学：重温纳粹主义和宗教

本文通过克服历史学家从世俗/科学或宗教/神学角度来理解纳粹种族主义概念的尝试，纠正了历史学家对纳粹种族主义概念的解释缺陷。这篇文章借鉴了各种人类学、哲学和政治理论著作，阐述了纳粹种族观念是如何根据人类遗传领域的最新发现而制定的，而且与当代关于世俗化、价值-自由科学和生物决定论。它认为纳粹的种族概念构成了一种新的宗教信仰形式，它没有利用超自然的信仰或神学叙事，而是利用了以活力论为导向的形而上学，将信仰的对象从上帝的超然领域转移到种族内在的内在领域。用活力主义-存在主义的术语重新定义信仰与纳粹克服现代性的碎片化、推翻唯物主义社会构成的虚无主义威胁以及在内在生物基础上进行精神复兴的愿望相符。