{"title":"Why Theodor Haecker Spoke to the White Rose","authors":"Helena M. Tomko","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2023.2171033","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the resonance of Theodor Haecker’s writing within the White Rose movement. Haecker met with the students multiple times in 1942, the year they circulated their first five leaflets, and on 4 February 1943, two weeks before the final leaflet’s distribution. Why did this Catholic inner exile, translator of Newman and Kierkegaard, and one-time Weimar public intellectual speak to the students so powerfully as they conceived their political action and wrote their leaflets? The article draws on recent departures in inner-exile studies to propose that their fluency in the rhetorical techniques of non-conformist discourse in the Third Reich equipped them to embed arguments in their leaflets that were gleaned from the interpretive community within which they encountered Haecker. His final reading to them from his book about theodicy — why things are as they are — offers a case study in reading with care the texts they read with purpose.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"105 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2023.2171033","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
This article considers the resonance of Theodor Haecker’s writing within the White Rose movement. Haecker met with the students multiple times in 1942, the year they circulated their first five leaflets, and on 4 February 1943, two weeks before the final leaflet’s distribution. Why did this Catholic inner exile, translator of Newman and Kierkegaard, and one-time Weimar public intellectual speak to the students so powerfully as they conceived their political action and wrote their leaflets? The article draws on recent departures in inner-exile studies to propose that their fluency in the rhetorical techniques of non-conformist discourse in the Third Reich equipped them to embed arguments in their leaflets that were gleaned from the interpretive community within which they encountered Haecker. His final reading to them from his book about theodicy — why things are as they are — offers a case study in reading with care the texts they read with purpose.
期刊介绍：
Oxford German Studies is a fully refereed journal, and publishes in English and German, aiming to present contributions from all countries and to represent as wide a range of topics and approaches throughout German studies as can be achieved. The thematic coverage of the journal continues to be based on an inclusive conception of German studies, centred on the study of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present, but extending a warm welcome to interdisciplinary and comparative topics, and to contributions from neighbouring areas such as language study and linguistics, history, philosophy, sociology, music, and art history. The editors are literary scholars, but seek advice from specialists in other areas as appropriate.
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
分享
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
扫码关注我们
