Der doppelte Orient Zur völkischen Orientromantik des Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß

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" Der doppelte Orient Zur völkischen Orientromantik des Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß "
Felix Wiedemann

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1088566
Doc. No	:	LA132195
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157007309787376000‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Felix Wiedemann
Title & Author	:	Der doppelte Orient Zur völkischen Orientromantik des Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß [Article]\ Felix Wiedemann
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Date	:	2009
Volume/ Issue Number	:	61/1
Page No	:	1–24
Abstract	:	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. 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.
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Intellectual History
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157007309787376000‬