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Hermann Cohen on Judentum and Deutschtum during WWI
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on September 2, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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         is the key year in Germany
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failed offensive in             
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                    's failed attempt to bleed out the French to force a decisive victory
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counter offensive in the Battle of the           
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puts pressure on the               
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an increasing sense in Germany that the war cannot be       
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coupled with the consequences of the                  blockade
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on the home front a real shortage of         
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in German cultural and mental context
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internal divisions within German culture become much more pronounced
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they become another front in the war
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a reopening of the rift between German Jews, Germans, and the question of:
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what is it to be             
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what is it to be German
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Hermann           
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German Jewish philosopher
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founder of the Marburg School of Neo-                    
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1915 essay on                 
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what it is to be a Jew
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1916 another essay, argues that being Jewish is                          with the idea of Germany
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the debate is split between many dichotomies
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1916 text is centered around the problem of                                and Verständigung
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trying to find reconciliation between a series of                     
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1.                          vs. Judaism
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have the same spiritual roots and foundation
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not necessarily an idea of       
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but a moral conception of humanity
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a humanistic conception of religion
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tries to reconcile the perceived difference and antagonism between Christianity and Judentum
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but without collapsing either of them
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some argued that to reconcile them, the Jews must fully convert
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2. full assimilation vs.               
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Cohen is in the             
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               Zionism but wants to retain a Jewish identity and contribution to German culture
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the war had the affect of                      these dichotomies
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a rise in Zionism
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3. German                      vs. Judentum
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Judenzählung
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Germany army wanted to know how many Jews were serving in the army and if they were                   
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contrary to what they discovered, they tended to report that Jews were not being patriotic
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he sees this converging in the figure of                (1729-1781)
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"Nathan der Weise" (1779)
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A Parable of the Three           
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             classicism is a cosmopolitan notion of Germany
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a reconciliation between being Jewish and being German
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it's not German idealism but classical Weimar
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4. German philosophy (                ) vs. Judentum
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German philosophy not as the idealism of Fichte and Hegel, but of Kant
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a rational conception of religion, a notion of                 
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Cohen argues this was the core philosophical insight of the        Testament
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"prophetic messianism"
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the true realization of religion is a true relation of humanity and autonomy
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there is already a kind of Kantian idealism in Judaism
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Cohen is a Neo-Kantian
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this provokes on of the first vicious anti-Semitic attacks by the editor of Kant-Studien
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Bruno           
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argues against Cohen that one could not be an                        of Kant and Jewish
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Cohen didn't respond to this, which set up a certain               
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Davos debates
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Heidegger and                 
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a conflict between Deutschtum and Judentum in the First World War
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parting of ways
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Cassirer was a Neo-Kantian follower of Cohen
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one sees that the First World War does not end                              in Germany in 1918
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events leading up to WWII have there roots in this                 
Carl von Clausewitz: On War
The Nature of Colonialism Wars
1916 Zurich and Perspectives on the Great War
The Necessity of War in Politics
Eucken's Interpretation of Fichte
Husserl, the Great War, and the Meaning of Death
Henri Bergson on WWI Germany and France
Hermann Cohen on Judentum and Deutschtum during WWI
Hodgson and Reinach on Foreboding