Foreign Spirits in the "Nation of Kant": Racializing Antisemitism and the Secularization of German Philosophy
This essay suggests that a distinctive shift toward racializing antisemitism can be traced in early twentieth-century German philosophy. Focusing on the neo-Kantian philosopher Bruno Bauch, the essay reflects on the role of idealist philosophy in introducing an epistemology of race and racial value....
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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The Jewish quarterly review
Año: 2020, Volumen: 110, Número: 1, Páginas: 127-160 |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Bruno Bauch
B Neo-Kantianism B Nationalism B philosophy and race B Racialization B Hermann Cohen B Idealism B German Jews B Antisemitism B Racism B race and religion |
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| Sumario: | This essay suggests that a distinctive shift toward racializing antisemitism can be traced in early twentieth-century German philosophy. Focusing on the neo-Kantian philosopher Bruno Bauch, the essay reflects on the role of idealist philosophy in introducing an epistemology of race and racial value. Examining Bauch's explicitly secular and scientific idiom, the essay attempts to interrogate the relationship between secularization in modern German intellectual history and the interpellation of Jewishness as a religio-racial specter in the specific context of German philosophy. In conclusion, the essay presents an argument about the peculiar discursive imagination of modern racialization, particularly when taking into consideration the racialization of Jews as both ideal and real, both spiritual and embodied. By probing this peculiarity of antisemitic constructions of the "Jewish race," the essay critically analyzes how discourses of racialization impose specific categories, signifiers, and markers on bodies. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2020.0004 |
