Pynchon's RC sources

[Terrance Flaherty]

Thanks Dave, this is a very important. I want to get the
stuff from Eliade up first, so that we can see how Pynchon
is treating sacred and profane history and by that time we
will get to Stencil's speculations about Joachim of Fiore
and Fascism.  And, of course, I think it ironic that a
Marxist  would make this observation.;-)



Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> Joachim of Fiore's "Third Age" is in the lineage of
> Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.  From Roger Griffin,
> "Party Time: Temporal Revolution of the Third Reich,"
> History Today, Vol. 49, No. 4 (April 1999), pp. 43-50
> ...
> 
> "... the name given to Hitler's regime, the Third
> Reich, was not just numerically correct in that it
> followed the Holy Roman Empire (Reich) and the
> Bismarckian 'Second Reich'. It also resonated with the
> esoteric connotations of an 'earthly Jerusalem' first
> given it by the twelfth-century Italian abbot Joachim
> of Fiore, whose speculations about the unfolding of
> the divine plan 'triadically' within history in the
> three ages of the Law, the Church and the Spirit, had
> a major impact on the sporadic epidemics of
> millenarianism which broke out in Europe in later
> centuries. This fusion of the political with the
> mystical was encouraged by the fact that in German
> 'Reich' applies equally to a territorial 'empire', to
> the 'realm' of the spirit, or to the 'kingdom' of God.
> In 1937 the Marxist cultural critic, Ernst Bloch,
> published an essay from exile which portrayed Nazism
> as the eruption of ancient longings for a 'paradise on
> earth' and for a  messianic leader which had been
> forced to the surface by the acute crisis of Weimar
> Germany ..."
> 
> http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/humanities/Roger/party.htm
> 
> This seems useful as well ...
> 
> http://ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/~blackhir/Joachimessay.html
> 
> Have something around that might be of interest as
> well here, but can't find, can't recall author, title,
> will keep hunting ...
> 
> --- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Terrance,
> >
> > J of F seems an interesting dude, but how does "the
> > novel V. include his
> > theory of history?"  It's not that I don't believe
> > you, it would just be
> > nice to get more than a postulation without some
> > evidence.  This one is not
> > self-evident, is it?
> 
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