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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] The Conception of Anti-Jewish “Facts”: Languages of Anti-Semitism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
DESCRIPTION:The intellectual work of understanding, explaining and writing history is confronted with languages - in the plural- even when dealing with a subject located within the framework of one's native language. "The deeper we go back into past times," Hans-Jürgen Goertz expressed it in his Introduction to the Theory of History (1995), "the more linguistic worlds we have to pass through and do translation work." The section "The Construction of Anti-Jewish 'Facts': The Language of Antisemitism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" takes seriously the historical theoretical assumption that all historical knowledge is also a process of translation¬ from past to present and that a single language is not sufficient for this. This is particularly true for antisemitism in the 19th and 20th centuries because it uses language formulas and terms as actual weapons. Using his example, the lectures will present and discuss two aspects of linguistic and historiographical translation work that always belong together: First, the analysis of the linguistic structure of antisemitic hostility itself, its choice of words and metaphors, its aporetic figures of thought, the practice of double-binds and repetitions, as well as the logic of discourse in general (e.g., the scientification of resentment through foreign words and the assimilation to academic jargon, etc.). Secondly, the lectures also address those resistant attempts to counter the linguistic conspicuousness of antisemitic ideology of defamation and exclusion by means of historical linguistic criticism and to deconstruct it linguistically and intellectually. The panel thus offers exemplary insights into the historiographical use of metaphors, concepts and terminologies that were practiced in very different ways at very different times in the process of translation and cognitive work to counter antisemitism with linguistic awareness.
Der Beitrag The Conception of Anti-Jewish “Facts”: Languages of Anti-Semitism in the 19th and 20th Centuries erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2023.
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