GRGR (14): No zones but the Zone

Lorentzen / Nicklaus lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
Mon Nov 15 16:09:23 CST 1999


 "'There are no zones', he sez, which is also a line of Geli's. 'No zones but 
  the Zone'." (p. 333)

  Reminds me, like similar passages, of Adorno's & Horheimer's "Dialectic of 
  Enlightment". This term, they coined not only for history in general but 
  also as a "Zeitdiagnose" for the 30s and the first half of the 40s, is in one 
  passage of the book defined as the worldwide dequalifying "turning [: Hegels  
  "Umschlagen" - KFL] of enlightment into madness". 

                                                             KFL




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