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WWI: spirit of violence and hysteria
The malaise of the First World War. Even staunch humanists like Thomas Mann were caught up in the jingoistic fever, the pomp and ritual of nihilism. In 1914 he asked, “Is not war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?” … Continue reading
Dreyfus: big lies and big sticks
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. It was the end of the nineteenth century and his exoneration in 1906 coincided with the birth of modernism. The double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians and anti-Semites posing as patriots have remained on the … Continue reading
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lest we forget dreyfus
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. The time was la belle epoque, and the stage was france. But the chief actors in the drama- the double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians, and anti-Semites posing as patriots- have remained on the political … Continue reading
THE POETS DOWN HERE DON'T WRITE NOTHING AT ALL
The attitude was ”better a horrible ending than a horror without end”. There had been peace in the world for too long. From Berlin, in the spring of 1914, Colonel House wrote to Woodrow Wilson, ”the whole of Germany is … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, Bruce Springsteen, Carlo Carra, Charles Peguy, Erich Maria Remarque, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Freud, henri Bergson, Italian Futurists, Martin Buber, Nietzsche, Otto Dix, Parkinson's Law, Rupert Brooke, Severini, The Great War, Umberto Boccioni, Woodrow Wilson, WWI. World War One, XTC
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