Der doppelte Orient Zur völkischen Orientromantik des Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20319574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felix Wiedemann (0000-0001-9563-8207, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-3441 • E-ISSN: 1570-0739 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157007309787376000 |
| OpenAlex | W2056272045 |
| Language | DE |
| Citations received | 2 |
One of the main topics of the völkisch racial scientist Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß was the racial cartography of the Orient. Based on older discussions in anti-Semitic literature, Clauß constructed a racially divided – double – Orient and made a sharp distinction between Arabs and Jews. His depiction largely follows patterns of ascription from Orientalist as well as anti-Semitic discourses. By doing so he draws attention to structural overlaps and differences between Orientalism and anti-Semitism: a romanticized Arabic Orient served as an antipole to a “Nordic” Europe, and as such was finally able to advance to a positive alternative. The Jewish Orient, on the other hand, embodied for Clauß a threatening ambivalence and contrariety, which from the very beginning precluded romanticization and identification
Arabic · Archaeology · Art · Depiction · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Orient · Orientalism · Semitic languages · Theology · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · German Literature and Culture Studies · History · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2017 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |