Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Whose history?......Page 25
Structuralism oppressed?......Page 26
One linguistics or two?......Page 33
The defence of cultural diversity......Page 36
\'The struggle for freedom in research\'......Page 40
Reading the journals......Page 46
Interpretative pitfalls......Page 65
Academic politics......Page 68
The purge in the universities......Page 69
Gleichschaltung and cultural policy......Page 74
Karl Vossler......Page 78
Julius Schwietering......Page 80
Hennig Brinkmann    scholar  spy......Page 85
Adolf Bach......Page 88
Academics in the totalitarian state......Page 94
Etymology as collective therapy: Jost Trier\'s leap of faith......Page 97
From structuralist to fascist?......Page 98
The linguist in the vanguard of the mother-tongue......Page 108
A society of strict discipline......Page 110
Post-structuralism and fascism......Page 115
The strange case of Sonderfhrer Weisgerber......Page 117
Four papers by Weisgerber from the 1920s......Page 118
Themes in Weisgerber\'s early work......Page 129
Linguistic community and mother-tongue......Page 132
Celtic studies, Leo Weisgerber and National Socialist linguistics......Page 136
The modernizing impulse......Page 137
Sonderfhrer Weisgerber, Nazi Germany and the Celts......Page 144
Weisgerber and mother-tongue rights......Page 150
Weisgerber the redeemer......Page 152
\'A complicated young man with a complicated fate, in a complicated time\': Heinz Kloss and the ethnic missionaries of the Third Reich......Page 154
The Ahnenerbe and the Volksdeutsche......Page 157
The Deutsches Ausland-Institut and Heinz Kloss......Page 163
Kloss\' visit to the United States, 1936  7......Page 165
Kloss and his critics......Page 167
German brothers at the gates of the Reich......Page 179
Kloss as \'politically unreliable\' and an \'opponent\' of National Socialism......Page 186
\'Dismissal\' from the University of Tbingen......Page 188
Kloss\' role at the DAI    information gathering and scholarly intelligence......Page 189
Kloss and the Publikationsstelle Stuttgart  Hamburg......Page 193
Kloss and group rights......Page 195
A final obfuscation......Page 196
Yiddish linguistics and National Socialism......Page 198
The rise of Yiddish studies......Page 200
Solomon Birnbaum......Page 207
Birnbaum\'s career in Germany......Page 210
Jechiel Fischer......Page 215
Yiddish studies and German scholars......Page 221
Franz Beranek......Page 222
Lutz Mackensen......Page 230
Peter-Heinz Seraphim......Page 233
Linguistics as a key to history......Page 240
Vitalist linguistics, linguistics as theosophy and characterology......Page 243
Vitalism......Page 244
Ernst Jnger and the non-arbitrary sign......Page 247
Hennig Brinkmann\'s year zero: 1933......Page 252
Theosophy and anthroposophy: linguists as \'cranks\'?......Page 256
Characterology......Page 260
New Age Nazism......Page 264
Linguistics, race and the horror of assimilation......Page 270
Whitney on race and language......Page 277
The emergence of a rhetorical consensus......Page 282
Race and sound-system......Page 285
Race and ethnic group......Page 287
The scientific imagination and the horizons of community......Page 293
Linguistics and mother-tongue......Page 295
Schmidt-Rohr and the cult of mother-tongue......Page 298
Conclusion......Page 304
Appendix......Page 316
Notes......Page 333
Bibliography......Page 367
Index......Page 413