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[jd]

RE; the V-irus and fascism...  I picked up this book by Lowith
recently, published by Columbia University Press, entitled Martin
Heidegger and European Nihilism.  This might also be of interest to
Vinelanders as well, and certainly GR fans as well.

"On the strength of a dogmatic distinction between authentic and
inauthentic, existential and common, primordial and derivative,
abiding beginning and transitory today, Heidegger managed to give a
generation of students new measures and to persuade them that 'logic'
and 'reason' must dissolve in the 'whirl of a more primordial
questioning'; that ethics, culture, and humanity, which for a long
time we have only been writing in quotation marks anyways, are not a
serious concern; that human beings are not 'rational animals' [jd's
note: Mindless Pleasures?] but rather exstatic 'shepherds of Being';
that all theoretical representing and technological producing, in
which scientfic thinking is grounded, is a decline of subjectivity to
the objectivity which corresponds to it anda  decline to unconditioned
objectification ...

'the fundamental movement of the history of the West' is nihilism ...

On this 'path into the next epoch,' before Being can eventuate itself
into its originary truth, 'Being in the sense of the will [must] be
crushed, the world [must] be forced to collapse and the earth forced
to devastation, and human beings [must] be forced into mere labor.'"

On 8/10/06, Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> This really is a find.
>
> Against the Day:
> "Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years
> just after World War I"
>
> There is a discrepancy between the starting dates for the contraction of the
> "disease."  Also, Stencil's focus would be primarily in Europe, but the AD
> synopsis implies an American focus
>
> From the PBS "Great war" timeline for pre-1914 events:  1894 - "Nicolas is
> crowned Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, a position he did not want. Germany and
> Russia do not renew a friendship treaty and begin their adversary
> relationship."
>
> 1859 Wikpedia snippets:
>
> March 9 - The army of Piedmont-Sardinia mobilizes against Austria, beginning
> the crisis which will lead to the Austro-Sardinian War.
>
> April 23 - The Austrians send an ultimatum to Piedmont, demanding
> demobilization. This puts Austria in the position of an aggressor, and leads
> to French intervention. Piedmont rejects the ultimatum, and war breaks out.
>
> April 25 - Ground is broken for the Suez Canal
>
> July 11 - Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, faced with an expensive war against
> France and the kingdom of Sardinia and potential revolution in Hungary,
> meets Napoleon III, who also worries at the costs of extending the war and
> fears the effects of Italian nationalism, at Villafranca. By the preliminary
> treaty signed there, hostilities cease. Lombardy is ceded to the French (who
> immediately cede it to Sardinia), while the Austrians keep Venetia and the
> French promise to restore the Central Italian rulers expelled in the course
> of the war. This brings the Austro-Sardinian War effectively to a close.
>
> December 2 - Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his
> October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
>
> >From: "Dustin Iler" <osirx277 at hotmail.com>
> >
> >Sidney Stencil on the period in which AD is said to be set . . .
> >
> >" 'Which way does it go? As a youth I believed in social progress because I
> >saw chances for personal progress of my own. Today, at age sixty, having
> >gone as far as I'm about to, I see nothing but a dead end for myself, and
> >if you're right, for my society as well. But then: suppose Sidney Stencil
> >has remained constant after all--suppose instead sometime between 1859 and
> >1919, the world contracted a disease which no one ever took the trouble to
> >diagnose because the symptoms were too subtle-- blending in with the events
> >of history, no different one by one but altogether--fatal. This is how the
> >public, you know, see the late war. As a new and rare disease which has now
> >been curred (sic) and conquered for ever.' "
> >
> >V. (Perrenial Classics) pg. 498
> >
> >
> >Against the Day, being set in this period and leading up to that
> >cataclysmic event, promises to be the diagnosis.
> >
>
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