NP? modernity, terrorism, truth and relevance? CORRECTED

[alice wellintown]

And the German Sickness, as P calls it in GR, is an idea that P
expands to the West, but is Modernity without Contraint, Gnostic
Politcal Science.

On 4/21/13, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course Armstrong is correct. The excerpt could be misread, so one might
> think she fails to  attribute the term to Jaspers, but she does. Moreover,
> she is quite familiar, as she notes in her works, with the uses and
> controversial uses of the term.
>
> On Sunday, April 21, 2013, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
>
>>
>> Armstrong:
>>
>> "There was a similar transitional period in the ancient world, lasting
>> roughly from 700 to 200 BCE, which historians have called the Axial Age
>> because it was pivotal to the spiritual development of humanity."
>>
>> Not correct. It weren't historians yet the philosopher Karl Jaspers (see
>> *Vom
>> Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte*) who minted the term Achsenzeit in
>> 1949. And in later years the concept attracted rather social scientists
>> (like Eisenstadt) than historians to whom the concept must appear highly
>> speculative.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age
>>
>> An actual historian who thought a lot about this kind of concept in order
>> to shed new light on modernity was Reinhart Koselleck who developed the
>> term 'saddle time' (Sattelzeit) for the period between 1750 and 1850.
>> Sounds M&Dish, right?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhart_Koselleck
>> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sattelzeit
>>
>> On 20.04.2013 22:23, alice wellintown wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/a/armstrong-battle.html
>> On Saturday, April 20, 2013, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>
>>>  " But all of our experience suggests that it is not “fundamentalism”
>>> alone but an aching tension between modernity and a false picture of a
>>> purer fundamentalist past that makes terrorists."
>>>
>>>    This is Adam Gopnick in The New Yorker today about the marathon
>>> bombers. Does this apply to any of P's characters in AtD?
>>> Does this apply to P's vision? Is Hume's condemning what she sees as P's
>>> moral failure in Against the Day, refuted, or attempted
>>> to be seen (refuted) by P's vision of the cohesion of life in the Olde
>>> Europe scenes---the communities of the villages?
>>>
>>>
>>> Or, a few have remarked that DeLillo best captured the meanings and
>>> understandings of the characters in our recent acts of local terror.
>>> True,
>>> where?
>>> You can answer this question instead.
>>>
>>> Extra credit for both.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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