Language:
German
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts
Angaben zur Quelle:
17 (2018) 87-116
Keywords:
Simmel, Georg, Political and social views
;
Jews Identity
;
Jewish philosophers
Abstract:
This article examines the posthumous impact and readings of Georg Simmel during the interwar period. Aside from his not inconsiderable impact within his discipline, the readings often move in the gray area between different discourses, with the work and person of Simmel repeatedly being employed to interpret the times. In his obituaries, an extremely ambivalent image of Simmel was already being constructed as the apex and culmination point of an era. In numerous recollections, Simmel moreover increasingly acquired a pronounced physiognomy of thought in which his “Jewishness” played a central role. Precisely because he is regarded as a typical representative of German Jewry, the portrait of Simmel after 1945 can serve to describe this Jewry.
Note:
With an English abstract.
DOI:
10.13109/9783666370809.87
URL:
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