Language:
French
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Recherches Germaniques
Angaben zur Quelle:
30 (2000) 85-103
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Analyzes the connection between race and religion in 19th-century German antisemitism and how it marked the religious project developed by idealist German thinkers during the same period. Presents the main thoughts of Fichte, Heinrich Naudh, Paul de Lagarde, Chamberlain, and Friedrich Lange on the confluence of Jewish religion and race and the relationship between Christianity and Judaism. These antisemitic thinkers maintained that religion, a necessary racial attribute, mirrored the "race" that had created it. Since Judaism reflected Jewish crassness, Christianity had to be redefined, in conflict with Christian dogma, as originally an Aryan religion which was perverted by the Jews, who seek world dominion. A reorientation of religion towards politics, alternatively to art, was seen as essential for the creation of an authentically German religion. Analyzes the double role reserved for the Jews in this scenario; on the one hand they had to be eliminated, and on the other they were necessary for German redemption.
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