Post by pieter on May 14, 2019 16:50:28 GMT -7
Gobinism
Gobinism, also known as Gobineauism, was an academic, political and social movement formed in 19th-century Germany based on the works of French aristocrat Arthur de Gobineau. An ethnically pro-Germanic while anti-national ideology, particularly against the French nation; the movement had influenced German nationalists and intellectuals such as Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche. Historians have described Gobinism as becoming cult-like by the end of the nineteenth century, with powerful and influential followers, specifically in the Pan-Germanism movement.
Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (14 July 1816 – 13 October 1882) was a French aristocrat who is best known today for helping to legitimise racism by use of scientific racist theory and "racial demography" and for his developing the theory of the Aryan master race.
Becoming popular in German intellectual cliques, particularly the Bayreuth Circle, in the phenomena that Walter Charles Langer described as "Gobineau Societies"; Gobinism was later adapted by the likes of Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Alfred Rosenberg to forge elements of Nazi philosophy. Gobineau's antisemitism was emphasized within Gobinism to ideologically bridge to the later Nazi movement.
Historians have made much of the significant philosophical gap between the pessimism of Gobineau himself, particularly his insistence that his vision of mythical Aryans as a fallen and lost people, versus the optimism and themes of rejuvenation of the disciples and members of the Gobinism movement.[10] It has been suggested that the spawning of Gobinism went on to majorly influence all future racial theories of the period. Nietzsche's Übermensch (Super human) was largely inspired by the movement. Some historians believe the influence of Gobinism was still affecting racial discourse into the mid-20th-century.
Gobinism, also known as Gobineauism, was an academic, political and social movement formed in 19th-century Germany based on the works of French aristocrat Arthur de Gobineau. An ethnically pro-Germanic while anti-national ideology, particularly against the French nation; the movement had influenced German nationalists and intellectuals such as Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche. Historians have described Gobinism as becoming cult-like by the end of the nineteenth century, with powerful and influential followers, specifically in the Pan-Germanism movement.
Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (14 July 1816 – 13 October 1882) was a French aristocrat who is best known today for helping to legitimise racism by use of scientific racist theory and "racial demography" and for his developing the theory of the Aryan master race.
Becoming popular in German intellectual cliques, particularly the Bayreuth Circle, in the phenomena that Walter Charles Langer described as "Gobineau Societies"; Gobinism was later adapted by the likes of Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Alfred Rosenberg to forge elements of Nazi philosophy. Gobineau's antisemitism was emphasized within Gobinism to ideologically bridge to the later Nazi movement.
Historians have made much of the significant philosophical gap between the pessimism of Gobineau himself, particularly his insistence that his vision of mythical Aryans as a fallen and lost people, versus the optimism and themes of rejuvenation of the disciples and members of the Gobinism movement.[10] It has been suggested that the spawning of Gobinism went on to majorly influence all future racial theories of the period. Nietzsche's Übermensch (Super human) was largely inspired by the movement. Some historians believe the influence of Gobinism was still affecting racial discourse into the mid-20th-century.