Ausgrenzende politische Ideologien. Akteure, Organisation und Programmatiken, 2020
Nations are not mere constructions, they always also are contested and controversial constructs t... more Nations are not mere constructions, they always also are contested and controversial constructs that change over time. Using Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the field, this paper will show the contribution of German Jews to the German national field and to the establishment of the German nation state. Four aspects will be addressed in particular: First, the formation of the national movement roughly a decade after the revolution of 1848, particularly visible in the publication of a number of new journals; second, the national movement's consolidation, beginning with the founding of the "Nationalverein"; third, the controversies surrounding the issue of war and the nation; fourth, the completion of Germany's establishment as a nation state in the German Reich. The formation of anti-Semitism as a new social and political movement, which followed immediately after the proclamation of the German Empire, led to hypothesizing about an intimate link between anti-Semitism and nationalism, which will be addressed here as well. Ever since its formation in the early 19th century, national thinking was an agonal field in which many stereotyped images of enemies overlapped and where Judaeophobic prejudices were present as well. In the years of the foundation of the German Reich as a nation state, however, German Jews were central actors in this national field, whereas anti-Semites saw themselves on the defensive. *** * Dieser Beitrag geht zurück auf einen Vortrag, den ich auf dem Workshop "Unbekannte Jahre: Die vernachlässigte Epoche deutsch-jüdischen Aufstiegs: 1848-1880" der Wissen
Ausgrenzende politische Ideologien. Akteure, Organisation und Programmatiken, 2020
Nations are not mere constructions, they always also are contested and controversial constructs t... more Nations are not mere constructions, they always also are contested and controversial constructs that change over time. Using Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the field, this paper will show the contribution of German Jews to the German national field and to the establishment of the German nation state. Four aspects will be addressed in particular: First, the formation of the national movement roughly a decade after the revolution of 1848, particularly visible in the publication of a number of new journals; second, the national movement's consolidation, beginning with the founding of the "Nationalverein"; third, the controversies surrounding the issue of war and the nation; fourth, the completion of Germany's establishment as a nation state in the German Reich. The formation of anti-Semitism as a new social and political movement, which followed immediately after the proclamation of the German Empire, led to hypothesizing about an intimate link between anti-Semitism and nationalism, which will be addressed here as well. Ever since its formation in the early 19th century, national thinking was an agonal field in which many stereotyped images of enemies overlapped and where Judaeophobic prejudices were present as well. In the years of the foundation of the German Reich as a nation state, however, German Jews were central actors in this national field, whereas anti-Semites saw themselves on the defensive. *** * Dieser Beitrag geht zurück auf einen Vortrag, den ich auf dem Workshop "Unbekannte Jahre: Die vernachlässigte Epoche deutsch-jüdischen Aufstiegs: 1848-1880" der Wissen
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