ABSTRACT
The chapter examines Joseph Goerres, who evolved from a German Jacobin to a Romantic nationalist and, later, a founding father of German political Catholicism. In following Goerres’ intellectual trajectory, the chapter emphasizes his significance as a thinker who attempted to completely synthesize the biblical and the Indian (Indo-Iranian) narratives in order to create a Romantic narrative describing both the religious and the sociopolitical history of the world as one global process. The chapter stresses the peculiarity of Goerres as an author postulating the existence of two centers of Urvolk history, one in the Caucasus (Ararat), the second in India (Meru). Within this framework, the chapter examines how Goerres traced the sociopolitical history of the German people and the German Reich back to allegedly original estate-based society, and how he proclaimed a future unification of Germany as a rebirth of the original world-state.
