Luftmenschen

Concept and discourse of the "Jewish Luftmensh" has a double meaning around 1900: It functions not only as a metaphor for what the 19th century bequeathed to the 20th in form of the "Jewish Question", but also as a critical comment on modernity as a whole. In cooperation with the field of the so called "Völkerpsychologie" – highly regarded at that time – a kind of national social psychology was es...