Semitism

The expression Semitism is called a linguistic bond to structural and expressions, as is common in Semitic languages ​​. This use is analogous for example to Germanism, anglicism etc. - from about 1860 to about 1920, used to refer to the " exclusively from the ethnological point of view regarded Judaism ".

Furthermore, the term was used for " any negative feedback components of modernity, of capitalism, the emancipation of civil society and its pluralistic antagonistic character, the traditional critical Literatentum, Enlightenment ideas or, externalization ' of civilization. " This manner of use has its originating in the introduction of the concept Semites by August Ludwig von Schlozer (1781 ), was introduced into linguistics by JG Eichhorn (1787 ) and in the ethnography, finally no longer bound in the naturalistic theory of race of Gobineau and in one of the religious use of the the term " Jew ". These developments formed the background of the anti-Jewish construction of a " spirit of Judaism ", for example, in Hegel and Young Hegelians that describe Judaism as a " self-alienation " of man, finally with Karl Marx and the early socialists, giving it a " capitalist spirit " attribute. In this use, the term anti-Semitism refers to the direction indicated by the expression fictional Semitism, anti-Jewish construction.

The term Semitism is also used in the sense of a set of oriental culture.