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 Ernest Renan c. 1870s | |
| Born | Joseph Ernest Renan 28 February 1823 Tréguier, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 2 October 1892 (aged 69) Paris, French Third Republic |
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| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy |
| Main interests | History of religion, philosophy of religion, political philosophy |
| Notable works | Life of Jesus (1863) What Is a Nation? (1882) |
| Notable ideas | Civic nationalism[1] |
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Joseph Ernest Renan (/rəˈnɑːn/;[2] French: [ʒozɛf ɛʁnɛst ʁənɑ̃]; 27 February 1823 – 2 October 1892)[3] was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic.[4] He wrote works on the origins of early Christianity,[4] and espoused popular political theories especially concerning nationalism, national identity, and the alleged superiority of White people over other human "races".[5] Hannah Arendt remarks that he was “probably the first to oppose the Semitic and Aryan races as a decisive division of human genres.” [6]
Renan is among the first scholars to advance the debunked[7][better source needed] Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of the Khazars,[8] Turkic peoples who had adopted the Jewish religion[9] and allegedly migrated to central and eastern Europe following the collapse of their khanate.[8] On this basis he alleged that the Jews were “an incomplete race.”
- ^ Ernest Renan. "What is a Nation?", 1882; cf. Chaim Gans, The Limits of Nationalism, Cambridge University Press, 2003, p. 11.
- ^ "Renan". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.
- ^ . Popular Science Monthly. Vol. 42. December 1892. ISSN 0161-7370 – via Wikisource.
- ^ a b Römer, Thomas (11 October 2012). Homage to Ernest Renan: Renan's historical and critical exegesis of the Bible (Speech). Symposium. Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre-Marcelin Berthelot: Collège de France. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
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Cesaire1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hannah Arendt. Origins of Totalitarianism (1955). 1962 edition, page 174. Full quote with footnote: “It would be absurd to ask people to be reliable who by their very convictions must justify any given situation. It must be conceded that up to the time when the Nazis, in establishing themselves as a race-elite, frankly bestowed their contempt on all peoples, including the German, French racism was the most consistent, for it never fell into the weakness of patriotism. (This attitude did not change even during the last war; true, the "essence aryenne" no longer was a monopoly of the Germans but rather of the Anglo-Saxons, the Swedes, and the Nor-mans, but nation, patriotism, and law were still considered to be "prejudices, fictitious and nominal values.") * Even Taine believed firmly in the superior genius of the "Germanic nation," and Ernest Renan was probably the first to oppose the "Semites" to the "Aryans" in a decisive "division du genre humain," (39) although he held civilization to be the great superior force which destroys local originalities as well as original race differences. All the loose race talk so characteristic of French writers after 1870, even if they are not themselves racist in the strict sense of the word, follows pro-Germanic anti nationalist lines. (39) In Gobineau's opinion, the Semites were a white hvbrid race bastardized by al mixture with blacks. For Renan see Histoire Générale et Système comparé des Langues, 1863, Part I, pp. 4, 503, and passim. The same distinction in his Langues Sémitiques.
- ^ "Did the Khazars Convert to Judaism? New Research Says 'No'". en.huji.ac.il. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 26 June 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ a b Stampfer, Shaul (Summer 2013). "Did the Khazars Convert to Judaism?". Jewish Social Studies. 19 (3). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press: 1–72. doi:10.2979/jewisocistud.19.3.1. S2CID 161320785.
- ^ Feldman, Alex Mesibov (2023). "Chapter 4: Khazaria: The Exception Which Proves the Rules". In Raffensperger, Christian (ed.). How Medieval Europe was Ruled. Routledge. pp. 41–52. doi:10.4324/9781003213239-4. ISBN 978-1032100166.
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