Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Modern Judaism
Angaben zur Quelle:
22,2 (2002) 115-141
Keywords:
Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
;
Heidegger, Martin,
;
Lukács, György,
;
Gentile, Giovanni,
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Antisemitism Philosophy
;
Self-hate (Psychology)
;
Jews Identity
Abstract:
Discusses four philosophers representing four distinct varieties of antisemitism that were not equally serious or culpable. György Lukács, a Jew by birth, condoned the antisemitism of Stalin and always attacked the ex-Jews or non-Jewish Jews in the communist movement to which he gave allegiance. He is described as a self-hating Jew. Ludwig Wittgenstein is an even more extreme case; in his philosophy, Jews are considered uncreative. He evinced some antisemitic prejudices, and after the war expressed no sympathy for the Jewish victims of Nazism. He was influenced by Heidegger. The Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile condoned the antisemitic policies of Mussolini and Hitler, but such views did not impact on his philosophy. Heidegger was one of the earliest Holocaust deniers. One expression of his views was his exclusion of Jewish thinkers from Western philosophy. "Aryanism" was clearly part of his philosophy of Being. Hannah Arendt and other Jews defended him even though he continued his antisemitism after the war.
Note:
Focuses on Martin Heidegger, Georg Lukács, Giovanni Gentile, and especially Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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