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Cosmopolitanism and the Jews

世界主义与犹太人

基本信息

批准号：
AH/K003771/1
负责人：
Cathy Gelbin
金额：
$ 9.81万
依托单位：
University of Manchester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK003771%2F1
关键词：
Cosmopolitanism Jews

项目摘要

Cosmopolitanism has recently become a keyword in envisioning productive types of inclusivity and diversity in the West, where societies are increasingly shaped by migration, transnational and diasporic processes. This project contends that from early modernity onwards, Jews represented the paradigm of the cosmopolitan because they were seen as a people beyond borders. Today, they have largely vanished from the picture but remain in the palimpsest of academic discourse about the cosmopolitan.While the issue of the cosmopolitan has returned with a vengeance to the social sciences and to the political arena (in the shape of debates about the movement of people and their urbanisation) little attention has been given to when and how this concept evolved. What I am presenting with my co-author, Prof. Sander L. Gilman (Emory University), is a case study and a history: the origin of the modern anxiety about immigration and the free flow of peoples across boundaries, and the meanings that nation states and these individuals attach to such movement pro and contra. This history has direct relevance to contemporary debates on migration in Germany and the UK, and our globalising world more broadly.Building on our previous individual work and research collaborations, our current project examines the trajectory of German-Jewish cosmopolitanism in global perspective. My AHRC-funded monograph The Golem Returns (2011) had studied modern Jewish popular culture from 1800s Germany to the recent emergence of globalised forms of Jewish culture, arguing that these were accompanied by a new cosmopolitan Jewish awareness. Our jointly organised conference (2008) and following co-edited volume on Jewish Culture in the Age of Globalization (2011) explored these connections in interdisciplinary perspective. The proposed research programme and associated impact activities will enable me to network with key practitioners in the education, arts and politics, and develop my reputation as an intellectual leader within academia and beyond.Our planned study explores the German-Jewish example as an exemplary case study of cosmopolitanism, which works itself out in complex ways across the Western hemisphere and beyond. We set out from the premise that German-speaking Jews both epitomized the figure of the cosmopolitan and themselves contributed a rich body of literary and theoretical writing on this concept. We question how Jews were and are made to function as the litmus test of Kant's and Fichte's cosmopolitanist dialectic of particularist universality. Having conceptualised the overall scope of the study and planned individual chapters, we are seeking funding to support for the detailed research and actual writing of the work.We argue that the rootless Jew, the stranger or pariah, the cosmopolitan and the internationalist form part of the dichotomous imagery attached to Jewish mobility and fluidity. We seek to demonstrate how these notions consolidated during the Enlightenment and ensuing nationalist and racial thought. Our study will analyse the inherent instability of these images of the Jews, showing how they served to fuel antisemitic discourses, but also seemingly productive notions of the Jews. These perceptions, we contend, culminated in the early 20th-century perception of the Jews as cosmopolitans per se and served to ideologically underpin the Nazi and Stalinist persecutions of Jews.Focussing on self-identified German-Jewish writers participating in modern Jewish cultural and political discourses during the 19th and 20th centuries, we want to explore how concepts of Jewish mobility and fluidity arose in particular contexts of social change. We present the historically ambivalent application of these ideas about the Jews to indicative case studies of individual authors and their work.

世界主义最近已成为设想西方富有成效的包容性和多样性类型的关键词，在西方，社会越来越多地受到移民、跨国和散居过程的影响。这个项目认为，从早期现代性开始，犹太人代表了世界主义者的范式，因为他们被视为超越国界的民族。如今，它们基本上已从人们的视野中消失，但仍是关于“世界主义者”的学术话语的重要组成部分。虽然“世界主义者”的问题以复仇的方式回到了社会科学和政治竞技场（以关于人口流动及其城市化的辩论的形式），但很少有人关注这一概念是何时以及如何演变的。我和我的合著者桑德·L。吉尔曼（埃默里大学），是一个案例研究和历史：对移民和跨国界的人民自由流动的现代焦虑的起源，以及民族国家和这些个人对这种运动的赞成和反对的意义。这段历史与当代德国和英国关于移民的辩论以及更广泛的全球化世界直接相关。基于我们以前的个人工作和研究合作，我们目前的项目从全球视角审视了德国-犹太世界主义的轨迹。我的AHRC资助的专著《魔像归来》（The Golem Returns，2011）研究了从19世纪德国到最近出现的全球化犹太文化形式的现代犹太流行文化，认为这些文化伴随着新的世界性犹太意识。我们共同组织的会议（2008年）和以下合编的全球化时代犹太文化卷（2011年）探讨了跨学科的角度这些连接。拟议的研究计划和相关的影响活动将使我能够与教育，艺术和政治的主要从业者建立联系，并发展我作为学术界内外的知识领袖的声誉。我们计划的研究探讨了德国犹太人的例子，作为世界主义的典型案例研究，它以复杂的方式在西半球和其他地区发挥作用。我们从这样一个前提出发：讲德语的犹太人既是世界主义者形象的缩影，他们自己也为这一概念贡献了丰富的文学和理论著作。我们质疑犹太人是如何成为康德和费希特关于特殊普遍性的世界主义辩证法的试金石。在对研究的总体范围进行概念化并计划了各个章节之后，我们正在寻求资金支持这项工作的详细研究和实际写作。我们认为，无根的犹太人，陌生人或贱民，世界主义者和国际主义者构成了与犹太人流动性和流动性有关的二分法形象的一部分。我们试图证明这些概念如何在启蒙运动和随后的民族主义和种族思想中得到巩固。我们的研究将分析这些犹太人形象的内在不稳定性，展示它们如何助长反犹主义话语，但也似乎是犹太人的生产观念。这些看法，我们认为，在20世纪初的犹太人作为世界主义者本身的看法达到了顶峰，并在意识形态上支持了纳粹和斯大林主义者对犹太人的迫害。聚焦于19世纪和20世纪期间参与现代犹太文化和政治话语的自我认定的德国犹太作家，我们想探讨犹太人的流动性和流动性的概念是如何在社会变革的特定背景下产生的。我们提出了历史上矛盾的应用这些想法犹太人的个人作者和他们的工作的指示性案例研究。