The Antisemitism of Producers
Hitler and the “Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13085543 |
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| Authors | Marcel Stoetzler (Bangor University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 257-296 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2326-4462 • E-ISSN: 2326-4470 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/732183 |
| OpenAlex | W4405466347 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The article suggests that Nazi antisemitism inherited one of its key elements, the idea of the nation as a community of producers, from the tradition of modern bourgeois ideology inaugurated in the period of the French Revolution. It argues that this element of continuity can help explain its attractiveness to large constituencies across many political and social divides. First, the article provides a detailed interpretation of the January 1939 Reichstag speech in which Adolf Hitler publicly enunciated the genocide of European Jewry. Second, this speech is contextualized in other writings by Hitler, including Mein Kampf, as well as selected sources of nineteenth-century antisemitism. Third, the article relates these findings to the “rhetoric of bourgeois revolution,” identified by William Sewell in his work on the French Revolution
Aesthetics · Antisemitism · Art · Art history · Bourgeoisie · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Theology · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy
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| Highly cited | No |
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