Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
History of European Ideas
Angaben zur Quelle:
25,4 (1999) 179-206
Keywords:
Bauer, Bruno,
;
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
Abstract:
Discusses the views expressed by Bauer (1809-1882), who opposed the removal of legal discrimination against Jews by the state. Focuses on the period when he was a left Hegelian (ca. 1840-45). Bauer published two influential works in 1843, "Die Judenfrage" and "Die Faehigkeit der heutigen Juden und Christen, frei zu werden". His contempt for Jews and Judaism should be seen as undermining his reputation as a liberal. Despite his atheism, he did not criticize religions objectively but favored Christianity for its more "progressive" role in history. He believed that Judaism had no raison d'être, criticizing it, inter alia, for being exclusivistic and hypocritical. Bauer denied any Jewish contribution to Western civilization since the Talmud. He objected to Jewish emancipation, considering Jews "unsuited for citizenship". He viewed the Jews as responsible for their own estrangement in the modern world and, thus, deserving neither pity nor consideration. Later, in "Das Judenthum in der Fremde" (1863), he adopted a biological, racial definition of the Jew.
DOI:
10.1016/S0191-6599(00)00003-6
URL:
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