Proto-sociologist Moritz Lazarus within the context of German-Jewish Life-Worlds

社会学家莫里茨·拉撒路（1824-1903）是19世纪下半叶德国公共生活中的杰出人物，他是大众哲学家，“Völkerpsychologie”（民间或社会心理学）的创始人，也是德国改革犹太人的代表人物。在前一个项目阶段的过程中，在当代媒体上发现的关于他的大量材料表明，他比一开始想象的要出名得多。这项研究的目标仍然是当代和死后的公众如何看待、解释和评价他、他的作品和他对社会的干预。从而重构他的自我认知和公众形象是如何形成的。该项目在政治、社会和传记发展的背景下分析了这种自我和外部建构的周期，并通过这有助于理解一个德国犹太人接受和影响的复杂历史，他的现代社会理论在他死后很长一段时间内继续以匿名的方式影响他人。这项研究的主题是他一生中的七个关键时期，主要围绕着他的一些演讲或书籍——这些都是在出版物和精选的信件中捕捉到的。这个项目的延续是有必要的，原因有二：在对素材库进行实际的探索和评估之前，无法预见他的公众存在的程度到底有多大。这种扩展变得更加必要因为他的通俗哲学著作《生命的存在》对同时代人的影响比分析材料之前预期的要重要得多。因此，它必须作为一个新的研究中心。

Proto-Sociologist Moritz Lazarus (1824-1903) was a prominent figure in German public life of of the second half of the nineteenth century - as popular philosopher, founder of the "Völkerpsychologie" (a folk, or social, psychology) as well as representative of German Reform Jewry. During the process of the previous project phase, the sheer amount of material about him that was found in the contemporary press showed that he was even more well-known than already assumed in the beginning. The goal of the study continues to be the question how the contemporary and posthumous public perceived, interpreted and evaluated him, his work and his intervention into society. Thus, it will be reconstructed how his self-perception and his public image has been formed. The project analyzes the cycles of this self- and external construction within the context of political, social and biographic developments and through that contributes to the understanding of the complex history of reception and influence of a German Jew whose modern social theory, after his death, for a long time continued to influence others only anonymously. Subject of the study are seven key episodes in his life, mostly around some of his lectures or books - captured in publications and selected correspondence. The continuation of the project is necessary for two reasons: Prior to the actual exploration and evaluation of the corpus of material it was not foreseeable what extent his public presence really had. And the extension has become necessary even more because his popular-philosophical book "Das Leben der Seele" had turned out to be much more important for the contemporaries than expected prior to the analysis of the material. It had thus to be inserted as a new center of the study.