Language:
French
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire
Angaben zur Quelle:
79,2 (2001) 533-546
Keywords:
Toussenel, A.
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Analyzes the social, religious, political, racial, and economic critique of financial speculation in 19th-century France. The "anti-speculation" thinkers, from Alphonse Toussenel to Maurice Barrès, viewed speculation as non-productive, parasitical Jewish activity, antagonistic to work and Christian values, and threatening to France's future. Contends that Toussenel's "Les Juifs, rois de l'époque" (1845) served as the intellectual matrix for a wide range of anti-modernist and anti-capitalist thinkers: revolutionary right-wingers, nationalists, socialists, and Christian socialists. They increasingly rejected the enlightened idea that Jews could be made productive; Fourier, Toussenel, and Proudhon saw Jews and Judaism as irremediably parasitical and wanted to rid the world of them. Concludes that the development of "anti-speculation" thinking echoes the transition from Christian anti-Judaism to social and racist antisemitism.
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