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Bucerius Guest Lecture: Dr. Marcel Stoetzler, Bangor University, UK "The Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution and the 'Jewification' of Society"
| Location: | Israel |
| Lecture Date: | 2012-01-16 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-01-10 |
| Announcement ID: |
191177 |
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This talk takes as its starting point a formulation from Hitler’s speech of January 30, 1939, ‘Creative men of all nations, recognize your common foe!’. Together with the famous ‘prophecy’ of the destruction of the European Jews that immediately follows it, this slogan marks the rhetorical high point of this historic speech. Being of course a reference to the concluding sentence of the Communist Manifesto, it invites reflection on what kind of 'socialism' National Socialism was. The talk examines the context of that slogan and suggests that it is underwritten by a particular vision of a ‘social state’. In its remainder, the talk then suggests that through its appeal to 'creative men' ('schaffende Angehoerige aller Nationen') Hitler's mocking reference to the Communist Manifesto indirectly points to another manifesto, namely that of the bourgeois revolution, Sieyes's 'What is the Third Estate?' that proposed that only the creators of wealth constituted the nation, all unproductive eaters being parasites. It is suggested that the rhetoric and ideology of the bourgeois revolution that in the first place provided some of the ideological support of Jewish emancipation also was invoked sucessfully for its most radical revocation in the name of the socialism of the producers, 'National Socialism'. This seemin g paradox is proposed to be seen as an instance of what Adorno and Horkheimer famously termed the 'Dialectic of Enlightenment'.
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