Brunner, philosopher and philosophical psychologist, founder of motion psychology, was the first to see a movement space in the human soul.

Here is a philosopher who cares not whether many agree with him; in fact, ex hypothesi, the people, who are always mixing up non-reality with reality, will censure and ridicule him. Yet he cares not one straw for all this, having within himself abolished all the vulgar unrealities—God, moral laws, the spirituality of the soul, the separate existence of mind and matter, all the stuff taught by ordinary theologians and metaphysicians.

In a class of its own within the Jewish Jesus literature stands the weighty tome (715 pages!), Our Christ, or the essence of genius, by the lately immortalized philosopher, Constantin Brunner (Leopold Wertheimer). Only some essential passages of the content-heavy book can be indicated here. Christ is a mystic, and in order to understand him, we must understand the essence of mysticism.

En 1924, pendant que Hitler, emprisonné après son putsch manqué, rédige Mein Kampf, le parti nazi connaît ses premiers succès en Thuringe. Aussitôt Brunner, philosophe spinoziste, toujours au fait de l'actualité, publie un pamphlet qui s'adresse à tous les Allemands, Juifs et non-Juifs, pour dénoncer les dangers de l'État de non droit qui se dessine.

The Center for Jewish History Digital Collections catalogs a number of artworks depicted Constantin Brunner. There is a portrait by Max Busyn, a wooden head of unknown authorship and Brunner's death mask. All are said to be in the possession of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, but I have seen a death mask at the Brunnerzimmer in The Hague.

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A while ago, I posted an item about a portrait of Brunner by Julie Wolfthorn that appeared in the journal Ost und West, and is made available through a digitization project called Compact Memory, "the science portal for Jewish Studies." The database is searchable, and a number of articles by and about Brunner can be found in it. One item that I found was what appears to be a most compelling portrait of Brunner.

The Bulletin Trimestriel de la Fondation Auschwitz has dedicated a special issue to Constantin Brunner (announced here, pdf, p. 5-6). Included are an editorial, an introductory essay and an extract from Brunner's Das unglück unsres deutschen Volkes und unsre Völkischen (The Misfortune of our German Folk and our "Folkish").

The impetus for this publication comes from Jacques Aron, a Belgian architect who has made many contributions to discussion of urgent social concerns, and has now taken a great interest in Brunner, whom he discussed in a forum sponsored by La Maison du Livre, an organization devoted to the promotion of "books, literature and writing."

There is much in Aron's introductory essay to reinforce the conviction of Brunner's growing importance for an adequate understanding of our times.

It appears that the Bulletin eventually will place the whole text of the issue (N°98) on its website.