Der arische Ansatz

Erich Frauwallner und der Nationalsozialismus

by Jakob Stuchlik

Extent: 202 pages

Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse

Series volume number: 797

Language: German

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(December 2009)

ISBN: 9783700167242

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English summary: The Aryan approach was repeatedly propagated by Erich Frauwallner at the point of intersection between Indology and society, where to all appearances he was offering the results of exacting Indological research in the form of a compact and well-established image of India to a wider audience. Especially in the German-speaking world and in Japan, Frauwallner has gone down in the history of his discipline, above all in the area of Buddhist Studies, as a scholarly authority. This influential scholarly reputation has led to the identification of the India-image presented by Frauwallner as identical with India itself. Since in its basic structure this picture is Aryanizing racist, it also contributes to the impression of an unholy alliance between India and Nazi Germany. As long as the Nazi context in Frauwallner’s activity as a scholar and teacher is ignored, either by being passed in silence or made to appear harmless as has been done for decades in the German-speaking world, there can be no serious discussion concerning the degree to which ideology encumbers his scholarly and scholarly-political oeuvre. What, however, is being transmitted or inherited if Frauwallner is acclaimed as an authority and his philology considered exemplary scholarly work? In this book, I examine the Aryan approach not only as a repeatedly presented racist periodization of Indian philosophy, but also as the conceptual key to the scholarly and scholarly-political work, and indeed to the life of a staunch Nazi. In the process, I expose many facets of corrupt dealings with the past, both before and after 1945. German description: Der arische Ansatz wurde von Erich Frauwallner wiederholt an der Schnittstelle zwischen Indologie und Gesellschaft propagiert, wo es allem Anschein nach darum ging, die Ergebnisse detaillierter Indienforschung synthetisch in Form eines fachwissenschaftlich gesicherten Indienbildes einer breiteren Offentlichkeit zu prasentieren. Frauwallner ist vor allem im deutschsprachigen Raum und in Japan als wissenschaftliche Autoritat in die Geschichte seines Faches, insbesondere der Buddhismuskunde, eingegangen. Dieser Ruf einer wissenschaftlichen Autoritat begunstigt eine Identifizierung des von Frauwallner prasentierten Indienbildes mit Indien selbst. Da dieses Bild in seiner Grundstruktur arisierend rassistisch ist, steuert es auch zum Eindruck einer unheiligen Allianz zwischen Indien und Nazideutschland bei. Solange der nationalsozialistische Kontext des Wirkens von Frauwallner als Forscher und Lehrer durch Verschweigen und Verharmlosen ausgeklammert wird, wie es im deutschsprachigen Raum jahrzehntelang der Fall war, kann von einer ernsthaften Diskussion uber das Ausmass der ideologischen Belastung seines wissenschaftlichen und wissenschaftspolitischen OEuvres keine Rede sein. Was aber wird dann tradiert und mittradiert, wenn Frauwallner als Autoritat und seine Philologie als mustergultige Wissenschaft verherrlicht werden? In diesem Buch skizziere ich den arischen Ansatz nicht nur als den wiederholt vorgetragenen rassistischen Periodisierungsansatz der indischen Philosophie, sondern auch als den konzeptuellen Kern des wissenschaftlichen und wissenschaftspolitischen OEuvres, und nicht zuletzt des Lebens eines uberzeugten Nationalsozialisten. Dabei exponiere ich zahlreiche Facetten des korrupten Umgangs mit der Vergangenheit in Kontinuitaten nach wie vor 1945.

By (author) Jakob Stuchlik

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