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Die Verneinung der Herkunft Egon Friedells idealistischer Antisemitismus

    Roland Innerhofer

Sprachkunst Jahrgang LI/2020, 2. Halbband, pp. 33-48, 2021/01/26

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Jahrgang LI/2020, 2. Halbband

doi: 10.1553/spk51_2s33

doi: 10.1553/spk51_2s33

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doi:10.1553/spk51_2s33



doi:10.1553/spk51_2s33

Abstract

The negation of the origin: Egon Friedell’s idealistic anti-Semitism. If, on the one hand, research accuses Egon Friedell of “vehement hatred of Jews” and, on the other hand, apologetically denies his anti-Semitism, this reflects Friedell’s ambivalent attitude: he combines the long-lasting anti-Jewish discourse with modern racial theories, while at the same time asserting the idealistic sovereignty of the individual. By intensifying such antinomies typical of the time in an aphoristic manner, Friedell makes them productive for the style and rhetoric of artistic cultural historiography.