History 427/527: Modern German Intellectual History (McCole)
Germans, Jews, and Buber
I. Neo-romantic Movements
II. Germans and Jews in the Nineteenth Century
III. Buber’s Orientalism and Jewish Renewal
Neuromantik (“Neuro-mantik”)
Eugen Diederichs / Jena
vitalism
volkish (völkisch)
Germanic religion
politics of cultural despair
anti-Semitism
youth movement / Wandervögel
lyric poetry: Stefan George / Rilke / Hofmannsthal
Dilthey: hermeneutics (theory of interpretation)
Ausdruck (expression) / Erlebnis (lived experience) / Verstehen (interpretive
understanding)
Lebensphilosophie (“life-philosophy”) = vitalism, irrationalism
Nietzsche, Dilthey, Spengler, Klages
Holocaust
Gershom (Gerhard) Scholem, “Against the Myth of the German-Jewish Dialogue” (1964)
emancipation
assimilation
anti-Semitism
Ostjuden (eastern Jews)
Yiddish
I and Thou (Ich und Du)
Die Gesellschaft (Society)
Prague
orientalism
Teshuvah (return, reversal, renewal)
Hasidim