| ID | 115354 |
| Title Proper | Images of the self and the other in the nationalist writing of Houston Stewart Chamberlain |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Rash, Felicity |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Houston Stewart Chamberlain is best known as an anti-Semite; however, the British-born independent scholar was also a fervent German nationalist. His major anti-Semitic work, Die Grundlagen des 19. Jahrhunderts (The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century), was first published in 1899 and masqueraded as a history of Europe. His most important nationalist works were his Kriegsaufsätze (war essays), published beginning in 1914. This article examines the discursive methods used by Chamberlain to create images of the German Self and its enemy Other in both Die Grundlagen and the war essays. The enemy Other in Die Grundlagen was portrayed as the destructive force represented by Jews; the Self was the creative or regenerative will and abilities of Aryans. In the war essays, the enemy Other was, to start with, the Russians, French, and English, and, later on, just the English (Chamberlain did not refer to the British). The war essays were subject to censorship and so could only make negative references to Jews 'between the lines'; Chamberlain, however, was careful to point out to his readers that they should look for hidden messages. |
| `In' analytical Note | Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism Vol. 12, No.2; 2012: p.344-362 |
| Journal Source | Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism Vol. 12, No.2; 2012: p.344-362 |
| Key Words | Jews ; Chamberlain ; Aryans ; Grundlagen ; History ; Europe |