Doch nicht etwa der fleissige Konversationslexikonsredakteuyr Plinius?, in Chamberlain. He reciprocated by paying a tribute to Chamberlain in Mein Kampf. HomeIssues11Antique Bodies in Nineteenth CentPart I: Utopian BodiesTraining the Body: The Antique ModelFrom Humanism to Nazism: Antiquit Darwiniste social et raciste convaincu, Houston Stewart Chamberlain sest constitu une vaste culture dautodidacte. Chamberlain now expressed this philosophical allegiance to German imperialism with the most brutal cynicism: "Nobody can prove that Germanic supremacy is a blessing for all the Earth's . Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy, natural science and Richard Wagner. Assistance with short selling your home British-American philosopher and educator. For todays readers, it is nothing more than a flood of words and phrases, an accumulation of commonplaces, false ideas and lies without any firm structure or real coherence. After years of travelling and wandering/wondering about new ideas, he found in the racist theories of Schemann and other Rassentheoretiker of the time a unified vision of the worlda true Weltanschauung. Please, do not mention this painstaking compiler, good enough to write mediocre encyclopaedias named Plinius, Chamberlain has nothing but contempt for Plinius, who might have been less of a mediocre, , as he puts it, than he was himself. Contrary to what is being taught by those who are too lazy to think and by flagrant historical lies, the Germanic invasions did not destroy the Empire but saved it from its fatal jewification and degeneration. Houston Stewart Chamberlain was an Englishman who had married Richard Wagner's daughter. More importantly, they would prevent any further decadence and avoid mixing with inferior races, like the Jews or other crossbreds. Chamberlain was brought up by relatives in France. Chamberlain could very well have been a poor mans Hegel: rewriting the history of civilization in a less than talented way, apologizing for not being able to elaborate further on what he was talking about because it would take too long and writing much nonsense on the science of the time which he was already busy repudiating. . I, chap. Remaining in Germany during World War I, Chamberlain received the German Military Cross in 1915 and became naturalized the next year. Before praising the Romans for being good lawyers, he blames them for their lack of creativity: Can you find one single poetic genius among the Romans? 23 Weindling, Paul, Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, 463p. And Weindling, Paul, Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. No. Rome was destroyed by the Jews because it had not protected the purity of its race and because it was never able to lead a proper racial war: a total war of annihilation. 28 Hitler, Adolf, Mein Kampf, Munich, Franz Eher Verlag, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1926, 782p. Quote from vol. He then joined the Nazi party before he passed away in 1927. The Jews are a case in point; if a man possesses a sacred book, which contains all wisdom, then all further investigation is as superfluous as it is sinful: the . Later, when the Jews rebelled in Palestine, under Vespasian and Titus, and then under Hadrian, they were beaten once again: There is a second roman, of overwhelming significance for world history: the. : to fight against the (revolutionary) French idea of Nation based on the (false) assumption of equality. . Hitler and Goebbels got the chance to pay him another visit, in May 1926, just before he passed away. 23 Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century: A Translation from the German by John Lees, vol. What is left of Rome today is no other than a landscape of ruins which looks like the white skeleton of a dead civilization. houston stewart chamberlain, the importance of race summary. Trailblazer, pioneer! , Wien, Zrich, New York, Europa Verlag, 1940, p.51. , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, 463p. And Weindling, Paul. 13 As a true Wagnerian, Chamberlain needed heroes and saviours. Corrections? You are free: to share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix - to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution - You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. This is a draft section of a chapter in my forthcoming Ph.D., in which I explore the racial and theological theories of 19th-century German philosopher Houston Stewart Chamberlain. 7 Der Grieche war von jeher, was er noch heute ist, untreu, unpatriotisch, eigenschtig, Ibid., p.50. Houston Stewart Chamberlain a fost un scriitor, sociolog i filosof englez; autor de cri despre filosofie politic. The immigration of strangers to the race was recurrently presented as the invasion of microbes and viruses into a healthy and sound body. The fanatic wants to overwhelm people with words, you wish to convince, only to convince themand that is why you are successful. Jetzt glaube ich einzusehen, da dies grade Ihr Wesen bezeichnet und sozusagen umschliet: der wahre Erwecker ist zugleich Spender der Ruhe. . and not just in Germany. This would be taught in the ideological courses every member of the party (among which, members of the SS) had to take. No surprise there, because, according to him, Christ was also a German. The idea of physical race unity and rice purity, which is the very essence of Judaism, signify the recognition of a fundamental physiological fact of life; wherever we observe life from the hyphomycetes to the noble horse we see the importance of "race"; judaism made this law of nature sacred. Sein Buch Die Grundlagen des 19. Jahrhunderts, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2005. 19 Fenske, Wolfgang, Wie Jesus zum Arier wurde. As a true Wagnerian, Chamberlain needed heroes and saviours. His book Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (The . Es war hohe Zeit, dass der Retter erschien, 1941-1944. Christ, Karl, Hellas: Griechische Geschichte und deutsche Geisteswissenschaft, Mnchen, C.H. Doch nicht etwa der fleissige Konversationslexikonsredakteuyr Plinius?, in Chamberlain, op. In these publications, Chamberlain emphasized the heroic Teutonic aspects in the composers works. What then could possibly have happened? Rauschning, Hermann, Gesprche mit Hitler, Wien, Zrich, New York, Europa Verlag, 1940. They then engaged with the Romans: Carthage was a Jewish kingdom and Hannibal himself was some sort of a fighting rabbi! Like Hegel, Chamberlain praised the Greeks for inventing freedom and the key notion of personality: Over there, in Asia, in the East, no man had ever been a person. SpracheRasseReligion, Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a typical member of the 19, century British gentry but had the most atypical destinya destiny which was built around the culture of two countries: England which he left early and Germany which was to become his true home. Later, the Wagner family would welcome another subject of the British Empire: Winifred Williams. He also had quite a vast cultural knowledge for a self-made man. Griechenland hat stets nach Asien gravitiert, bis Rom es losriss. Field, Geoffrey G., Evangelist of Race. In 1899, his Foundations of the 19th Century allowed him to reach public fame. 20 Bergen, Doris L., Twisted Cross. I, chap. The main postulate was quite simple: everything in human history and culture could be explained by race, as Schemann would later emphasize in the three volumes of his Rasse in den Geisteswissenschaften. In the 1920s, he met Hitler. Ein Beitrag zur historischen Methodenkritik, in Archiv fr Kulturgeschichte, 64, 1972, pp. 3This book has the reputation of being hard, if not impossible, to read. Counter-revolutionary theoreticians exalted in Germany the biological idea of the Volk and coined the word vlkisch as an alternative to the French adjective national. Chamberlain chose to revisit this holy triangle through the vlkisch perspective. 12In the end, Rome triumphed. , Mnchen, C.H. This attempt at completing the Nazi evangelium was not crowned with success: Hitler, who considered Mein Kampf as sufficiently self-explanatory, despised Rosenbergs reflections which Goering himself went as far as to call a mere philosophical burp. The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, A passionate and self-educated man, Houston Stewart Chamberlain studied and read a lot, eager to explore many different fields at once: history, philosophy or the natural sciences. 24 Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, Sehr geehrter und lieber Herr Hitler 7. Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) was an English author of books on political philosophy, natural science. , of the European bourgeoisie: in other words, racism, social Darwinism and colonialism. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Hitler, Adolf, Mein Kampf, Munich, Franz Eher Verlag, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1926. His writing promoted German ethnonationalism, antisemitism, and scientific racism; and he has been described as a "racialist writer". These people are too stupid to think for themselves, . Historians must therefore make the effort to understand that, for Chamberlains coevals, his book was important in that it provided an answer, at the time, to important questions and, to a larger extent, tried to give a meaning to history. As a tribute to Chamberlain, and in the similar style of his book, Alfred Rosenberg, the chief ideologist of the Nazi party, entitled his own work, The Myth of the 20th Centurya book which was meant to be, with Mein Kampf, the gospel of Nazism. Johann Chapoutot, From Humanism to Nazism: Antiquity in the Work of Houston Stewart Chamberlain ,Miranda [Online], 11|2015, Online since 23 July 2015, connection on 05 March 2023. This meant rewriting, mimicking and sometimes even plagiarizing parts of Hegels, , which, since it had been posthumously published in 1837, had become mandatory homework for those who wanted an easy introduction to the work of the great philosopher. Please, do not mention this painstaking compiler, good enough to write mediocre encyclopaedias named Plinius11. Das Rassen- und Nationalittlose Vlkerchaos des sptrmischen Imperiums, In the end, Rome triumphed. He imported some of his arguments from the . He was the son of an English captain, later admiral. 17Indeed, this encounter and interview left such an impression on Chamberlain that he considered Hitler as the epitome of many essential virtuessuch virtues as warmth, kindness and selflessness, all embodied by the Fhrer of the NSDAP: You are not at all, as you have been described to me, a fanatic. Chamberlain criticized them for their lack of political sense: The Greeks have always been, and are still today, unfaithful, unpatriotic, self-centred, . Chamberlain chose to revisit this holy triangle through the vlkisch perspective. He mumbles, wants to speak, he can'tand then weeps like a child! Racism in National Socialism. In Chamberlains work, the past is a warning for the present. Indeed, I would also describe you as the opposite of a politician, in the commonly accepted sense of the word, for the essence of all politics is membership of a party, whereas with you all parties disappear, consumed by the heat of your love for the fatherland. 2, John . Auswirkungen der Entjudaisierung Christi im 19. und zu Beginn des 20. An analysis of Wagners drama (1892) and a biography (1895) followed. Chamberlain saw in Hitler the new William II who could save Germany, as he wrote to him in a moving letter in the form of an accolade from the old philosopher of the race to the young racist politician.24 Chamberlain addresses a most respected and dear Herr Hitler, the only one who could give him strength and peace, confidence and energy, everything that he had lost in August 1914, when Germany entered a fateful war: I have been wondering why it was you of all people, you who are so extraordinary in awakening people from sleep and humdrum routines, who recently gave me a longer and more refreshing sleep than I have experienced since that fateful day in August 1914 when I was first struck down by this insidious sickness. Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a social Darwinist and a true racist. She married Siegfried, Richard Wagners only son, and was considered the only true custodian and bailiff in Bayreuth after Siegfrieds death, as well as a sort of muse for Adolf Hitler, whom she greatly admired. Wie Jesus zum Arier wurde. Trailblazer, pioneer! Both an art lover and a dilettante, he was welcomed into Richard Wagners larger circles when he became his son-in-law. 10, p.296, in the English translation by MURPHY, James, London, Hurst and Blackett, 1939, vol. His writing promoted German ethnonationalism , antisemitism , and scientific racism ; and he has been described as a "racialist writer". Stackelberg, Roderick, Winkle, Sally, The Nazi Germany Sourcebook. 2 Schemann, Ludwig, Die Rasse in den GeisteswissenschaftenBand II: Hauptepochen und Hauptvlker der Geschichte in ihrer Stellung zur Rasse, Munich, Lehmanns Verlag, 1930, 419p. 3 Puschner, Uwe, Die vlkische Bewegung im wilhelminischen Kaiserreich. This idea allowed Chamberlain to combine both his vast amount of knowledge in history as well as in the humanities, in general. Weindling, Paul, Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003. Ludwig Schemann exerted a great intellectual influence on the other members of the Wagner circle, popularizing what people started to call the Vlkisch ideology. However, it was quite successful from the 1900s to the 1930s; it sold over 200000 copies. This idea according to which the Greeks and the Germans shared the same taste for beauty had been a commonplace for, since Johann Winckelmann published, in 1764, his, In the words of Chamberlain: This assumption of the importance of the arts corresponds to a specific character of the German mind, if I am not mistaken, But what was to be said about Rome? (1855-1927) Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the Anglo-German race theorist and philosophical and . 18 Ohne ihn ging der Tag des Indoeuropers zu Ende. Cartea n dou volume a lui Chamberlain, Die . The edict of Caracalla in 212 was the beginning of the end: the Romans were to die of a slow death, all victims of this blood disease, after having mixed their blood with Arabs, Africans and Jews. is to serve the Germanic race". You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. Es hat meine Gedanken beschftigt, wieso gerade Sie, der Sie in so seltenem Grade ein Erwecker der Seelen aus Schlaf und Schlendrian sind, mir einen so langen erquickenden Schlaf neulich schenkten, wie ich einen hnlichen nicht erlebt habe seit dem verhngnisvollen Augusttag 1914, wo das tckische Leiden mich befiel. You stand by us when we are near despair. After France, Italy, Belgium, he ended up in Vienna, then in Geneva, where he earned a Bachelors degree in Science. He became a member of the Wagner circle and grew quite intimate with the family of the, whose daughter, Eva, he ended up marrying. , Munich, Franz Eher Verlag, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1926, 782p. Quote from vol. As for Aristotle, he would not have been remembered in the same way had it not been for Plato. Chamberlain addresses a most respected and dear Herr Hitler, the only one who could give him strength and peace, confidence and energy, everything that he had lost in August 1914, when Germany entered a fateful war: Es hat meine Gedanken beschftigt, wieso gerade Sie, der Sie in so seltenem Grade ein Erwecker de, I have been wondering why it was you of all people, you who are so extraordinary in awakening people from sleep and humdrum routines, who recently gave me a longer and more refreshing sleep than I have experienced since that fateful day in August 1914 when I was first struck down by this insidious sickness. His big eyes burn like fire. Christianity is, for the author, a pillar of European culture. Having learned, from a very young age, at least two foreign languages, he almost wrote better in French and in German than he did in English. . Was der Chamberlain da in seinen, Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945, The second Saviour (with a capital S) is Jesus Christ himself whom Chamberlain celebrates at length in his book. Nearly as significant and important was the fact that, thanks to the Roman conquest, the Greeks finally turned their back to the East, in other words to Asia: Without Rome, undoubtedly, Europe would have been a mere perpetuation of the Asian chaos. This race of heroes which carried out a Herculean task by creating the, was defeated by hybrid weaklings from Asia minor, Greeks and Jews who infiltrated the Empire and the most inner circles of imperial power, thus becoming the juridicial counsellors of the throne. Introduction Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927) is best known for his cultural history Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (Foundations of the Nineteenth Century; Munich, 1899) as well as for his studies of Kant, Goethe, Wagner, and Heinrich von Stein. Hitler saw in Christianity a lethal plague that had affected Europe because of the Jews who made Christians out of Germans to weaken them. Der Schwiegersohn Richard Wagners und engste Vertraute Cosimas war der fhrende Kopf Bayreuths. Not a Jew, by all means! Lolita : Examining the Underside of the Weave, A digital resources portal for the humanities and social sciences, Catalogue of 609 journals. , Hamburg, Albrecht Knaus Verlag, 1980, 496p., p.96. geschrieben hat, ist gelinde gesagt dumm, Hitler quoted in Rauschning, Hermann. In 1899 Chamberlain wrote his most important work, 'Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts' . () Where are the roman scientists? Says the author, Chika Onyeani, "We are a conquered race and it is utterly foolish for . Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) was a British-born German author of books on political philosophy, natural science and Richard Wagner.