Gemeinschaft und Identität: Über den Zusammenhang nationaler und antisemitischer Semantiken. (German)

Nationalism postulates the nation as a community and as an identity. This construction implies the delimitation of others. In nationalistic semantics, two kinds of distinction could be drawn between „us“ and „them“. First, other nations are imagined as alien communities and identities. In this view, the whole world could be understood in national terms. This distinction establishes xenophobia. Second, national community and identity could be opposed to society and anti-identity. This doesn't mean the imagination of another nation, but a „Jewish“ anti-nation. According to this distinction, nationalism deals with the specific modern question, whether community and identity are at all possible. The article discusses this second distinction, starting with the reconstruction of an exemplary text of Treitschke. Finally, it analyzes the paradox of German nationalism after Auschwitz which stimulates a new kind of national antisemitism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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