The Lost Caucasian Civilization: Jean-Sylvain Bailly and the Roots of the Aryan Myth

Harvey, David

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“…Этому есть несколько объяснений. Во-первых, в национал-социалистической мифологии данный регион не фигурировал как историческое место поселения готских или арийских племен 35 . Во-вторых, в плоскости современной политики Кавказ считался регионом со сложным по составу населением.…”

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Turkey and Pan-Turkism as Factors in Nazi Germany’s Strategy in the Struggle Against the Soviet Union. Between Politics and Propaganda

Feferman¹,

Kovalev²

2022

Modern History of Russia

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The article examines the evolution of Nazi Germany’s approaches towards Turkey and pan-Turkism in the German struggle against the Soviet Union. Particular attention is paid to political and diplomatic considerations, as well as propaganda guidelines adopted in Germany after the invasion of the Soviet Union. Geographically, a special emphasis is laid on the North Caucasus. Turkey was linked with the Caucasus in general and with the North Caucasus in particular through centuries-old cultural and religious ties that flowed naturally from geographical proximity, often supplemented by ethnic and religious affinities between Turkey and the Caucuses, including the North Caucasian peoples. Turkish influence was historically associated with pan-Turkism, a trend that emphasized the spiritual closeness of all people of Turkic origin, regardless of existing borders. In this respect, the German policy towards Turkey was unique, as this was a neutral country with whom Germany played a rather uncharacteristic subtle diplomatic and propaganda game. Its purpose was to tie Turkey to the Third Reich, giving it a role as “subcontractor” to control regions inhabited by peoples who historically gravitated towards Turkey. If this turned out to be impossible in the present or near future, even then the region should have been governed by Germany, with an eye to the interests of an important “shadow” player (Turkey). Germany’s flirtation with Turkey and attempts to win over Soviet Turkic peoples, including those in the Caucasus, were indicative of the desperate search for allies. This, in turn, resulted from the German realization that the Wehrmacht was firmly bogged down in the course of Operation Barbarossa.

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Turkey and Pan-Turkism as Factors in Nazi Germany’s Strategy in the Struggle Against the Soviet Union. Between Politics and Propaganda

Feferman¹,

Kovalev²

2022

Modern History of Russia

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“…Uninhibited expression is important in higher education, but based on the history of Western academia, the right to free speech and opinion generally means the right to denigrate people of color, especially people of African descent (Harvey, 2014). This sociocultural trend is evident in European literature throughout the Modern Period as leading scientists and educators have shown disdain for the cognitive abilities of African people (Jamison & Carroll, 2014;Parsons & Turner, 2014).…”

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“…Seemingly influenced by naturalists of his day, Montesquieu indicated that geographical location determines the attitudes, cognitive abilities, and achievements of a group. Guided by this rationale, Montesquieu classified people in hot climates as timid, lazy, and susceptible to servitude, but people in cold climates were brave, healthy, cognitively advanced, and achieved incessantly (Harvey, 2014;Montesquieu, 1777, XIV).…”

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“…Educators may not think of Gardner as a neoliberal due to his preference for "an education that is public in character" (Gardner, 1999, p. 39) if "public in character" means non-corporate control of schools. However, it may be reasonable to conclude that the conciliatory sensibility of Multiple Intelligences Theory is a cover for Gardner's real intentions to maintain conservatism, avoid educational facts, and not address racism as he discredits theories that are perceived as progressive (Harvey, 2014). Gardner (1999), for example, denounced postmodernism by declaring, "I have little or no tolerance for the 'pure' version of postmodernist thought" (p. 55).…”

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The intelligence concept and racial classification as sociological products of Western education

Cook

2021

Sociology Compass

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This article is a historical examination of how Western theorists created and utilized the intelligence concept and aligned it with racial classification to determine cognitive abilities. By the 1900s, Western theorists, without evidence, declared that intelligence exists as an inheritable, unchangeable mental condition. Influential Western theorists have exploited the intelligence concept to categorize the cognitive abilities of European descendants above that of non‐Whites, particularly African‐descended people as incessant deliberations emerged regarding the value of either cognitively superior or inferior racially defined groups. By interrelating geographical location with shared physical characteristics, Western theorists non‐scientifically divided the human family based on physical similarities among people and referred to them as races. These theorists incorporated the intelligence concept with racial classification as a sociological principle for educational development. According to the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, however, everyone has one or more forms of several intelligences. Although this theory appears to portray a different understanding from the original intelligence concept, it categorizes racial groups and individuals as having fixed levels of cognitive ability. Emphasizing intelligence as a descriptive factor to determine cognitive ability is an unscientific, unequitable characterization that has been employed to explain levels of social awareness and academic performance in Western education.

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Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece

Gagné

2021

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Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across genres and centuries, both as an exploration of the extraordinary record of Greek thought on that further North and as a case study of ancient cosmography and the anthropological philology that tracks ancient cosmography. Trajectories through the many forms of Greek thought on Hyperborea shed light on key aspects of the cosmography of cult and the cosmography of literature. The philology of worlds pursued in this book ranges from Archaic hymns to Hellenistic and Imperial reconfigurations of Hyperborea. A thousand years of cosmography is thus surveyed through the rewritings of one idea. This is a book on the art of reading worlds slowly.

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The Lost Caucasian Civilization: Jean-Sylvain Bailly and the Roots of the Aryan Myth

Cited by 15 publications

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Turkey and Pan-Turkism as Factors in Nazi Germany’s Strategy in the Struggle Against the Soviet Union. Between Politics and Propaganda

Turkey and Pan-Turkism as Factors in Nazi Germany’s Strategy in the Struggle Against the Soviet Union. Between Politics and Propaganda

The intelligence concept and racial classification as sociological products of Western education

Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece

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