NTMPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1007/s00048-023-00365-y
Moritz Epple, Maria Framke, Eli Franco, Horst Junginger, Baijayanti Roy
{"title":"Where do we Stand in the Historiography of Small Disciplines in Nazi Germany? The Case of Indology.","authors":"Moritz Epple, Maria Framke, Eli Franco, Horst Junginger, Baijayanti Roy","doi":"10.1007/s00048-023-00365-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-023-00365-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"233-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10556178/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10258219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2023-09-01Epub Date: 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1007/s00048-023-00366-x
Eli Franco
{"title":"\"There is No Reliable Evidence to Pass Moral Judgment on Frauwallner.\" : Erich Frauwallner, Jakob Stuchlik, Walter Slaje, and the Whitewashing of Austrian Indology During the Time of National Socialism.","authors":"Eli Franco","doi":"10.1007/s00048-023-00366-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-023-00366-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper engages with a little-known controversy between Jakob Stuchlik and Walter Slaje on the involvement of Erich Frauwallner, the renowned scholar of Indian philosophy (1898-1974), with NS institutions. It sheds new light on this controversy and highlights the Aryan-supremacist ideology that is reflected in Frauwallner's division of the history of Indian philosophy into an Aryan and non-Aryan period. On the whole, the paper sides with Stuchlik and exposes Slaje's attempt to whitewash Frauwallner and certain aspects of his work, despite his adoption of NS ideology and involvement with NS institutions such as the Gestapo and SA. Moreover, the paper dwells on Frauwallner's adherence to antisemitism and Aryan-supremacist ideology even after the WWII and as late as the 1960s.</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"245-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10556107/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10516249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2023-09-01Epub Date: 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1007/s00048-023-00363-0
Maria Framke
{"title":"Manoeuvring Across Academia in National Socialist Germany: The Life and Work of Devendra Nath Bannerjea.","authors":"Maria Framke","doi":"10.1007/s00048-023-00363-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-023-00363-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article investigates the possibilities and limits for the academic Devendra Nath Bannerjea to find employment in National Socialist Germany by producing-what he imagined to be-useful knowledge for the state. Bannerjea, who came from the Punjab in northwestern India via London, Geneva and Rome to Berlin, defies neat categorization. He was neither a National Socialist scholar, nor can he be solely understood as an Indian anticolonial nationalist. In the more than four decades he spent in Europe, Bannerjea appeared in many different roles-as an anticolonial rebel, false diplomat, researcher, and endeavouring professor. Despite his employment in different educational institutions, his publications, and his political and academic networks, he remained a second row intellectual and political activist. His activities led to repeated conflicts, first with British and later Nazi authorities, because of his radical ideas and claims to intellectual egalitarianism on the one hand, and, even more often, because of his 'creative' efforts to improve his precarious living conditions on the other.The article explores the relationship between knowledge production and National Socialist state politics through the lens of Bannerjea's life, focussing on the exchange of resources between Bannerjea and the National Socialist apparatus. Against the backdrop of the social circumstances of his livelihood, it investigates the knowledge produced by Bannerjea and the rewards he received from the National Socialist regime in return.</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"307-332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10556108/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10284164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2023-09-01Epub Date: 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1007/s00048-023-00362-1
Isabella Schwaderer
{"title":"\"Exotic Sensation\" or \"Völkisch Art\"? Press Reviews of the Indisches Ballett Menaka (Menaka Indian Ballet) on Tour Through Germany, 1936-1938.","authors":"Isabella Schwaderer","doi":"10.1007/s00048-023-00362-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-023-00362-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The tour of the Indian Ballet Menaka through hundreds of German cities between 1936 and 1938 left a large footprint in the form of theatre reviews. This article focuses on the role of these performances in actualizing a specific knowledge about India that was, firstly, based on the assumption of the consanguinity of Indo-German peoples and, secondly, on a vision of history as a realization of the utopian ideal of cultural regeneration through art. This article thus hopes to articulate the ways in which the unique experience of this Indian theatre event served as an instrument for consolidating a völkisch/racialized perception of art in general, and of music in particular.</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"333-356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10556114/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10302870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2023-09-01Epub Date: 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1007/s00048-023-00364-z
Baijayanti Roy
{"title":"Knowledge of India as an Instrument of Nazi Politics: Ludwig Alsdorf, German Indology and Indian Anti-Colonialism.","authors":"Baijayanti Roy","doi":"10.1007/s00048-023-00364-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-023-00364-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ludwig Alsdorf (1904-1978) is primarily remembered as a scholar of ancient and medieval India. This paper examines a little known aspect of Alsdorf's career: his role as an expert of modern India in Nazi Germany. Alsdorf, who was in India from 1930 to 1932, joined the NSDAP and a few of its subsidiaries after 1933. Political contacts as well as his claims of having \"first-hand experience\" of India secured Alsdorf writing assignments that aimed to fulfil the regime's political objectives. In return, he gained professional advancement and the reputation of being an authority on modern India. This paper reviews Alsdorf's trajectory within the NS state by focussing on the following aspects: the ways in which Alsdorf offered his knowledge of India to the Nazi regime; the material and symbolic resources that he received in return; the relative importance of political affiliations, professional networks and academic accomplishments for Alsdorf's career; the \"politics of the past\" practised by Alsdorf and some of peers after 1945; and the (re)presentation of the \"uses\" of Indology in the \"Third Reich\" and in the Federal Republic of Germany by Alsdorf and his colleagues.</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"275-306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10556162/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10284161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2023-09-01Epub Date: 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1007/s00048-023-00367-w
Moritz Epple, Maria Framke, Eli Franco, Horst Junginger, Baijayanti Roy
{"title":"Introduction: Indology and Aryanism: Knowledge of India in Nazi Germany-An Invitation for New Research.","authors":"Moritz Epple, Maria Framke, Eli Franco, Horst Junginger, Baijayanti Roy","doi":"10.1007/s00048-023-00367-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-023-00367-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The introduction to our special issue offers a brief survey of the historical literature on knowledge about India in Nazi Germany and distinguishes three different, but interrelated layers of such knowledge: disciplinary knowledge of Indology as an academic field, knowledge fulfilling the needs of state agencies, and popular knowledge (and beliefs) about India.</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":"219-231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10556168/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10258224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1007/s00048-023-00368-9
Vera Wolff
{"title":"W. Patrick McCray 2020: Making Art Work. How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, geb., 384 S., 52 Abb., 45 US $, ISBN: 9780262044257.","authors":"Vera Wolff","doi":"10.1007/s00048-023-00368-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-023-00368-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10060098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s00048-021-00320-9
Alexander Mayer
{"title":"Petra Terhoeven und Dirk Schumann 2021: Strategien der Selbstbehauptung. Vergangenheitspolitische Kommunikation an der Universität Göttingen (1945–1965) (= Veröffentlichungen des Zeitgeschichtlichen Arbeitskreises Niedersachsen, Bd. 36) und Christa Klein 2020: Elite und Krise. Expansion und „Selbstbehauptung“ der Philosophischen Fakultät Freiburg 1945–1967 (= Wissenschaftskulturen. Reihe III: Pallas Athene, Bd. 54).","authors":"Alexander Mayer","doi":"10.1007/s00048-021-00320-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-021-00320-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":"31 2","pages":"213-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10272229/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9643867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2023-06-01Epub Date: 2023-05-03DOI: 10.1007/s00048-023-00357-y
Aybike Alkan
{"title":"Technopolitical Construction of a River Basin: Turkey's Encounters and Adventures with the \"TVA Idea\".","authors":"Aybike Alkan","doi":"10.1007/s00048-023-00357-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-023-00357-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the postwar era, the preferred approach to harnessing rivers was through integrated river basin planning (IRBP), which required a holistic focus on the river basin for multipurpose development. While the river basin is taken for granted as the natural unit of development in the definitions of the IRBP concept, this article problematizes the river basin idea and reveals the politics behind what has been deemed natural (scientific), with a specific focus on Turkey's experience with IRBP. It explores geopolitical and national motivations and challenges in the context of the scaling of the Euphrates-Tigris basin. By approaching IRBP as a process of scale-making, it draws from discussions of the politics of scale in the literature on political ecology, but also incorporates a historical dimension to these discussions with attention to the political and environmental histories of Southeastern Turkey, which became home to Turkey's first and most extensive IRBP project, the Southeast Anatolia Project (GAP).The article stretches the chronological boundaries of GAP to the decades prior to the 1970s, when the project was initiated, by analyzing archival materials, including the proceedings of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the archives of a daily newspaper, and the expert reports on GAP. The analysis highlights the politics of scale as a powerful constituent of the politics of technological development, and shows the significance of historical analysis to delineate the politics of river basin planning into different layers, including the level of geopolitics, territorial disputes, and international conflicts.</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":"31 2","pages":"111-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10271898/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9648174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NTMPub Date : 2023-06-01Epub Date: 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1007/s00048-023-00358-x
Maximilian Haars
{"title":"[De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum : On the Epistemological Status of Taste Perception in Galen's Specific Pharmacology].","authors":"Maximilian Haars","doi":"10.1007/s00048-023-00358-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00048-023-00358-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the role of taste perception in Galen's research on simple drugs in relation to the acquisition of knowledge. To this end, 1.) I make it plausible through an examination of sources that the sometimes increased, more detailed and divergent indications of taste compared to his predecessors, especially Dioscorides and Sextius Niger, are based on Galen's own research, 2.) reconstruct Galen's research practice and 3.) examine the presentation of his results in linguistic and logical terms and explain the differences to traditional pharmacology. I argue that a) gustatory perception has a special significance in Galen's work that goes far beyond its traditional descriptive function and b) that, starting from the realisation that taste and drug action are interrelated, he assigns to taste qualities an indicator function for a much more fundamental principle that causes drug action and thus c) has prepared the ground for a pharmacognosy that also classifies according to taste principles, which was to reach its climax much later. With a view to a practice of gustatory testing of herbal drugs that is still practised today in pharmacy, which, like any other natural science discipline, has otherwise largely lost the sensory reference to its subject matter, the article would therefore like to provide an encouragement to study the \"history of pharmaceutical-medical tasting\".</p>","PeriodicalId":43143,"journal":{"name":"NTM","volume":"31 2","pages":"143-169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10272244/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9654580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}