Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Jerusalem Journal of International Relations
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,4 (1991) 71-94
Keywords:
Dreyfus, Alfred,
;
Barrès, Maurice,
;
Durkheim, Émile,
;
Trials (Treason)
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Examines how the seemingly opposing views of two prototypical French intellectuals - the neotraditionalist Maurice Barres and the revisionist sociologist Emile Durkheim, both strongly influenced by the Dreyfus Affair - converged with respect to nationalism. Although Barres' doctrine of nationalism was antisemitic (e.g. the true French people live in the land of their ancestors and have ties to the soil whereas the Jew, being "rootless, " cannot be loyal to France), both saw social solidarity based on a system of moral education as the way to reconstruct French society, even if this engendered submission of the individual to the total constraint of the society, seeming to anticipate 20th-century fascism.
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