Soundbite-Hooks and Foreign Policy
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This chapter investigates the extent to which the struggle against the anti-German Spirit is German in origin. Kraus's “Prayer to the Sun of Gibeon,” misinterpreted when it appeared in 1916, highlights the absurdity of a world of power politics in which the pan-German present uncannily converged with an Old Testament narrative fraught with atrocities. The reflection “On the Sinai Front” of 1917 pointed to the concurrence of two ethnicities. This was expressed by Schopenhauer's definition of a nation that “worships a God who promises it the lands of its neighbours.” During the World War, the Old Testament and modern German ideologies of being “chosen peoples” had already reached a point of convergence—of alignment before the event.
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2018 ◽
Vol 72
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pp. 304-316
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2018 ◽
Vol 28
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pp. 585-594
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1938 ◽
Vol 32
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pp. 467-487
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2001 ◽
Vol 35
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pp. 40-42
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