State Typohumanism and its role in the rise of völkisch-racism: paideía and humanitas at Issue in Jaeger's and Krieck's Political Plato

FACUNDO BEY

Educational Philosophy and Theory

Routledge - Taylor and Francis

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2020

0013-1857

The aim of this article is to provide a philosophical conceptual framework to understand the theoretical roots and political implications of the interpretations of Plato´s work in Jaeger´s Third Humanism and Krieck´s völkisch-racist pedagogy and anthropology. This article will seek to characterize, as figures of localitas, their conceptions of the individual, community, corporeality, identity, and the State that both authors developed departing from Platonic political philosophy. My main hypothesis is that Jaeger´s and Krieck´s interpretations of Platonic paideía shared several core-elements based on a modern conception of State sovereignty and human will, whose fundamental ground is the subjectivist-technical metaphysics. The ´production´ of a human type (spiritual and/or racial) and a unitary State political community appears in both authors mediated by a theory of political education, that I define as «State typohumanism», that sought its sustenance in Plato´s political philosophy, mainly by means of a distorted understanding of the notions of týpos and ē̂thos, and that, I argue, played a key role in the intellectual legitimization of völkisch-racism. This would be broadly translated into a programmatic and literal understanding of the Platonic Republic which assumes that the inherent function of any State is to produce subjectivities based on national identities grounded on homogeneous characteristics. In these varied characterizations, similar appropriations of humanitas have been expressed both in Jaeger and in Krieck. Revista indexada en: SCOPUS (SJR Q2, IF: 0.40), Social Sciences Citation, Web of Science (Thomson Reuters), DOAJ, Academic Search Premier, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online , Communication & Mass Media Index, EBSCO Education Source, Educational research abstracts (ERA), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Philosopher´s Index, APAIS: Australian Public Affairs & Information Service (National Library of Australia), Australian Education Index (Australian Council for Educational Research), British Education Index (University of Leeds), Contents Pages in Education (T&F), CSA Biological Sciences Database (ProQuest), CSA Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database (ProQuest), Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Thomson Reuters), Ecology Abstracts (ProQuest), Educational Research Abstracts Online (T&F), ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center (CSC),IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest), Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest). Multicultural Education Abstracts (T&F), PhilPapers, POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials (PDC), Professional Development Collection (EBSCO Publishing), ProQuest Central (ProQuest), ProQuest Education Journals (ProQuest), ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest),Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters), Sociology of Education Abstracts (T&F). ISI: IF 1.1415