Göttliche Verzauberung: Transformation durch die Urkraft der Liebe (German Edition)

Under the influence of Nietzsche, he saw it as an occasion for creative renewal, a feeling that finds its most potent expression in the painting Selbstbildnis als Mars In these poems, which Rilke repudiated shortly after writing them, the power of war to overcome individual alienation by reintegration into a collective whole is made very clear: Dix, Grosz, Beckmann, Schlemmer, trans.

Yale University Press, , p. Penguin, , p. Barnes gives the Diels-Kranz fragment number as B Insel, , II: Gedichte bis , pp. Rilke continues the theme of overcoming the individual in the fourth Gesang, where renewal is located quite specifically in glorious warfare: In other words, Rilke, that most pacific of men, envisages the War that had just broken out in terms of a pre-modern, communal heroism in which the alienated, displaced and fragmented individuals of modernity are reintegrated into a pre-modern community of glorious death, reunited in the heroism of princely courage.

There is no doubt that the form of warfare envisaged by Rilke in these poems, as in the cases of Stadler and Lotz, is that of the pre-modern, unmechanised open field of battle. Fischer, , II: Als sittliche Wesen aber — ja, als solche hatten wir die Heimsuchung kommen sehen, mehr noch: Gor und stank sie nicht von den Zersetzungsstoffen der Zivilisation? Just as with Heym, the need for rejuvenation, renewed authenticity, and overcoming the alleged traumas of modernity through war are plain to see.

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Above all, however, the need for renewal is posited as an aesthetic need: The naive, literary enthusiasm of the initial wave of German war volunteers, mainly students and Gymnasiasten, was swept away by the machine-guns of the first battle of Langemarck. First, all the above visions of warfare were informed by the notion of decisive battle which had dominated Western European military thinking in the wake of the Napoleonic wars and had subsequently been theorised by Jomini and Clausewitz.

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Its precepts were confirmed in the popular imagination by the easy victories of the Prussian forces in the Wars of German Unification. But as Brian Bond has pointed out, a more appropriate model for European strategists should have been the American Civil War 46 Cf. Erlebnisse und Wirkung des Ersten Weltkriegs, ed. Klartext, , pp. Industrialisation, Bond argues, eliminated decisive battle as such.

To these could be added barbed wire, hand-grenades, sub-machine guns, trench mortars, poison gas, range finders for the artillery, military radio and the ubiquitous deployment of increasing numbers of machine-guns, a weapon which John Keegan sees as emblematic of the industrialisation of the act of killing itself. From Napoleon to Saddam Hussein Oxford: Oxford University Press, , pp. The New Warfare London: Leo Cooper, , p. Scientific Developments London and Washington: Pimlico, , p. This anti-modern reasoning may have cost Germany a quick victory at the Battle of Marne.

Lupfer, The Dynamics of Doctrine: Lupfer highlights the influence of Ludendorff in the period in which a thorough reorganisation of the army command and tactics was carried out, a procedure which further undermined the established Prussian Junker mentality. In his account of the battle of the Somme, which extends to a more general analysis of the conditions of the Western Front, Keegan puts particular emphasis on the transformation of the battlefield that had been brought about by the new technology and the scale of its deployment.

He describes the impact on ordinary soldiers and officers as follows: For what almost all the soldiers of the First World War and many of the Second, even from the victor armies, testify to is their sense of littleness, almost of nothingness, of their abandonment in a physical wilderness, dominated by vast impersonal forces, from which even such normalities as the passage of time had been eliminated. Society, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century, 2nd edn.

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Cambridge University Press, , p. Berghahn describes how the Hindenburg Programme kept munitions production going, but at the cost of ruining the rest of the economy, whose pre-war growth had been export led. Likewise, inflation spiralled and the refusal to impose direct taxation led to fiscal reliance on war bonds and a legacy of financial chaos in the postWar era; cf. Cambridge University Press, , esp. Combat and Identity in World War 1 Cambridge: As Cora Stephan has put it: In the First World War, the inner tensions and contradictions of modernity, having started to reveal themselves before the War, were fully exposed as the emancipatory impulse of instrumental reason took a dialectical turn towards destruction and death, resulting in the emergence of a radical absurdity — or as Bauman would have put it, of ambivalence and chaos.

Indeed, each of the three elements that I have identified as crucial to classical modernity underwent severe strain: Bilder des Ersten Weltkrieges, ed. Die protestantische Theologie im Piper, , p. Indeed, Detlev Peukert has suggested that the problems of the Weimar Republic can be located in precisely that problematic economic modernity which I have already discussed. Mit dem Krieg geriet jedoch die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in die Stagnationsund Krisenphasen.

Die klassische Moderne erlebte ihre Krisenjahre. Peukert, Die Weimarer Republik: Krisenjahre der Klassischen Moderne Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, , p. For many, the optimism which was at the heart of classical modernity had been rendered senseless by the trench experience, and the rigid certainties of the social and political structures of the Wilhelmine Reich within which they had grown up and loved to hate were severely damaged by the experience of defeat and revolutionary upheaval, especially when the German Revolution proved a sham.

Indeed, Peukert has argued p. The Story of the Freikorps London: Spengler bemoans the lack of great deeds and gestures in the German Revolution. But for the Right, the Treaty of Versailles was a negative foundational mythic act, for it allowed them to identify the Republic with defeat, humiliation and the betrayal of everything they believed they had fought for, thus engendering a bitter resentment which was intensified by their own deep sense of cultural dislocation. With Lotz we can trace the process of enthusiasm, disillusion and, ultimately, stoic resignation.

With Stramm we can see a profound ambiguity in his responses to the trauma of the war, but, more importantly we can trace the disruptive effects of war on his use of language. With Marc we can follow his struggle to find a metaphysical framework to interpret his experiences. Then I shall discuss Fritz von Unruh, paying particular attention to his novel Opfergang , and show how, despite its ostensibly pacifist credentials, it bears witness to a profoundly ambiguous response to the War.

Becher, who turned to Marxism-Leninism. Norbert Bolz, Auszug aus der entzauberten Welt: Philosophischer Extremismus zwischen den Weltkriegen Munich: When war broke out, Lotz was enthusiastic about the potential for reunification that it brought, writing to his wife Henny: For Lotz then, the outbreak of War enabled him, the alienated intellectual, to overcome the difficult social and cultural problems inherent in modernisation and provided a secure basis for decisive action.

However, as we shall see with Stramm, too, this enthusiasm disappeared entirely after his first experience of battle. Moreover, although this campaign in the Vosges mountains took place long before the slaughter at Verdun and on the Somme, the deadly impact of artillery and machine-guns, combined with extraordinarily difficult terrain, led to heavy casualties at close quarters.

Consequently, the unifying effect of war via intoxicated enthusiasm was rapidly replaced by a desire for peace:. Ich werde wundervolle Dinge schreiben, voll Frieden und Kultur. Just five days later, he wrote: As Beamter and Offizier, Stramm was a member of the two central pillars of the Wilhelmine state and might have seemed to be one of those temperaments least likely to experience the contemporary world as in any way difficult. Whilst we must remember that writing war poetry did not of itself lead to formal crisis and the polyvalence of meaning that affected Stramm and that the form of his work develops out of his pre-war experimentation, his poetry is indeed symptomatic of a crisis of writing and values experienced at its most intense.

Erich Schmidt, , pp. Berg, , pp. Wilfred Owen, for example, experienced much the same intensity of violence and dislocation of values, but formal innovation in his work takes the relatively conservative form of half-rhymes. English poetic Modernism in the pre-War period was much less. First, in the initial part of the poem, syntax is not destroyed. Second, the absence of punctuation and the interchangeability of nouns and verbs means that the syntax is allowed an unprecedented degree of flexibility in which sentences overlap, preventing any one, stable meaning.

And fifth, a experimental in terms of form than that of Germany or Italy. Carl Winter, , pp. Oxford University Press, Limes, , p. In his letters both to Walden and to his wife,69 the conservative Stramm is torn between emotional extremes of despair and elation, revealing a personality riven by the contradictions of the war experience. Thus, he finds that he is at the peak of his creativity, composing the drama Geschehen in one evening pp.

Nevertheless, the dominant counterpoint is a feeling of linguistic crisis which sets in after his first battle: Edition Sirene, , pp. Aisthesis, , pp. Es ist so unendlich viel Tod in mir Tod und Tod. Ich dichte nicht mehr, alles ist Gedicht umher pp. Ich bin nicht ich nicht Person. Nicht Sinn, nicht Verstand, Nicht Sehen. Ich habe keine Worte nur Lallen. But whilst he is shocked at his own callousness pp.

This dimension culminated in his disparaging remarks about the Austrians p. Later still he wrote to his wife: Ich bin jedenfalls unverletzt wunderbar! Stramm, then, underwent a crisis of self, language and world-view during the First World War which manifested itself both in a confusing poetic polyvalence which resists straightforwardly integrative readings, and in an awareness of a multi-dimensional personality, decentred by modern warfare, struggling to find a legitimate voice and authenticity in writing.

He had made his name, along with Kandinsky, as a leading member of the Blauer Reiter group of artists in Munich and then saw active service from the outbreak of war until his death in action on 4 March during the German advance on Verdun. Here, he describes abstract art as an attempt to free art from its classically modern anthropocentrism: Die Kunst ist metaphysisch, wird es sein; sie kann es erst heute sein. Die Kunst wird sich von Menschenzwecken und Menschenwollen befreien. Although, as an intellectual, he was concerned to integrate the War into his view of the world, in an early letter to his wife he comments on the difficulty of doing so: All the letters cited in the following analysis are to his wife and are taken from Volume I.

As an artilleryman on the Lorraine front, Marc enjoyed extensive periods in which he saw little or no action, and although his letters often discuss novels and the avant-garde art scene, comment on the strategic situation and ask for news from home, he constantly returns to the question of the meaning of the War. His response to the War is multi-layered. On a personal level he declares initially that he has no regrets about joining up p. If anything, the prolongation of hostilities pushed Marc towards an increasingly spiritual interpretation of the War, largely because of the physical absurdity of the positional warfare on the Western Front which, for him, consisted largely of occasional artillery exchanges with French batteries.

Thus, ever more insistently Marc tries to account for the War in a spiritual-mystical way. By projecting all notions of value into a Jenseits, Marc can dispense with the need to deal rationally with the absurdity of the War itself. The letters of the following months saw an increased incidence of religious vocabulary. Finally, in February , Marc sees the War as a necessary punishment p.

Before the War, as we have seen, Marc thought that the role of art consisted in the renewal of Geist, and although this notion persisted into the War, it became linked much more closely to the death of God experience. In he wrote:. Mensch so leicht nicht fertig p. His aphorisms of early also proclaimed the duty of art to create its own traditions and not to dwell in the beliefs of the past p.

Or, in other words, despite radical doubts, Marc remained fundamentally a believer in a metaphysical order. Indeed, under the pressure of the War, this belief became ever more insistent and extreme, pushing him towards a radically Gnostic position which is concerned solely with decay and renewal in an incorporeal spiritual realm.

The urge for clarity, for a totalising vision is striking, in contrast to the actual ambiguity of his attitude to Christian belief in this letter. Much of the limited secondary literature emphasises, however, his nascent discontent with the rigidity and narrow-mindedness of his military surroundings, first as a cadet and then as a cavalry officer. His play Offiziere deals with a group of officers who, for various reasons, feel confined and oppressed by barrack life. Yet the hero, Lt. In the words of Gudrun Theil: Oswald Wolff, , III: Twelve Literary Essays , pp.

Mainland is keen to see Von Unruh as a convinced pacifist from the day he was born. A Monograph New York: Der Dichter und sein Werk Hanover: Dieter Kasang, Wilhelmismus und Expressionismus: Dramen I , pp. In his autobiographical essay Quo vadis ,80 Unruh reports how, very early on in the War, he was involved in a fire-fight which left him unconscious and apparently dead. He was then allegedly plundered and stripped by the opposing French forces, who left him to wake up naked on the corpse of a French soldier pp.

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Rittmeister und Eskadronschef im. Wilhelm Kolk, , p. Paul Tillich underwent a similar experience at Verdun: Cited in Zahrnt, p. Wilhelm Kolk, , Entry no. Bouvier, , p. They seem, rather, to represent various ideas about the War whose interaction is explored in the course of the novel. Opfergang wears its pacifist and anti-militarist credentials on its sleeve. The teacher, Clemens, is the main vehicle through which such sentiments are voiced, stating: The waiter goes mad. Even the Hauptmann expresses deep, gnawing doubts about the entire War in his diary.

Von Unruh implicitly blames the German High Command for the slaughter at Verdun — various generals in incidental scenes appear as callous and uncaring. Nevertheless, the surface pacifism of 88 Durzak, p. Let us now examine the implicit vestiges of this militarist vitalism in Opfergang which takes two main forms. First, the consciously expressed oppositional stances the characters use in order to affirm their identities are progressively modulated into individual and essentially decisionistic affirmations of the War.

Weich alles jetzt, was sich noch vor unsere Sonne stellt! Volk will vor, will Wahrheit! Nicht mehr den Stock! Wir lieben Dich, nicht mehr unter dem Zwange: Rede nicht weiter von leichten Triumphen und unverwelklichem Lorbeer! Zieh uns, die wir einen Meter vor dem Gipfel stehen, nicht in den Staub vergangener Jahrhunderte. By acting in tune with the vital forces of Nature, Clemens implies that mankind will be lifted into a new realm of authenticity that will transcend the purely destructive modernity of the enslaving Verdun experience.

Second, the narrator describes unconscious changes which take place in the characters once the fighting has begun, referring to the assault in terms of cathexis: Wilde Todesangst wandelte alle Leiber in rasende. Consequently, the previously pacifist Clemens becomes a ruthless killer; the previously militant Volunteer appeals to Nature for forgiveness for the violation done to the woods; the drummer ruthlessly strangles a French sniper who had killed his friend Hillbrand; and the Vikar, the Company second-in-command who had previously expressed reservations to the Captain p.

The transformation of Clemens becomes even more dramatic as the battle grinds to a standstill in the ruins of Beaumont. Initially Clemens had reacted with seeming despair: Hauptmann, verbrennen wir alles! Vor Spielern und Gecken weicht nicht der Geist! Er ringt sich von Stunde zu Stunden aus seiner Umklammerung! Wo sind sie, die uns Barrieren bauten? Ich sehe sie nicht! Wir sind die Entscheidung. Unser ist die Tat! Niemand wird unser Herz wieder fangen! In uns lebt Jugend! Its significance is intensified because it comes from the character who had previously been used by von Unruh as his principal mouthpiece for pacifist sentiments.

Moreover, such an appeal to the Earth had long been a prerogative of right-wing Kulturkritik with its primitivistic Blut und Boden mythology. Opfergang, therefore, is much more complex in its exploration of the War than might initially appear to be the case, and its radical turn towards a militant.

His experiments as an expressionist Dramaturg notwithstanding, Ball tried vainly to join up like so many others in , only to suffer an acute sense of shock and distress at the reality of the Front which he witnessed as a civilian , whence he returned in November before emigrating to Switzerland in mid In his lecture on Kandinsky from April cf. These ultimately involved a conservative vision of art which sought to redeem modernity by assimilating irrational and unpredictable elements into an overarching and harmonic spiritual structure.

Ball was to take this conservative impulse much further in mid when he rejoined the Catholic 89 Cf. Die Menschen sterben wirklich […] Das Leben ist freilich wieder interessant geworden, es hat seinen vollen Inhalt wieder bekommen p. Alexander Fest, , p. An Intellectual Biography London: Institute of Germanic Studies, Imago, , X: Werke aus den Jahren , pp. They both represent attempts to come to terms with the War by re-positing a fundamental human nature around which a total, theoretically coherent world-view can be constructed in a manner which retains the modern emphasis on totalising meta-narrative even as it sacrifices the rational, civilised ego.

Becher Although the expressionist poet and dramatist Johannes R. Becher was not involved in any fighting during the First World War — and an East German biographer claimed that he was immune to any of the infectious enthusiasm of August — he was clearly deeply affected by the events of the War and its aftermath. If we ignore the Stalinist vocabulary, it is clear that what happened to Becher was another version of the modernist experience in which the pressures of modernisation processes unravelled assumptions internalised from classical modernity and so forced him to look for another totalising meta-narrative.

Under the pressure of the War, Becher turned to a pacifist politics that led him to join the Spartakus-Bund and then the KPD in late Yet at the same time he continued to write poetry in an ecstatic-apocalyptic vein and descended into depression and drug94 Horst Haase, Johannes R. Leben und Werk East Berlin: Volk und Wissen, , p.

But when he wrote on 13 April But, because Becher seemed at this stage to require an instant and total solution, the failure of the German Revolution to bring about such qualitative change caused him to become drastically depressed and to look for other strategies of redemption. This desperation about the situation in Germany issued in a typically modernist crisis. Becher, Briefe , ed. Aufbau, , I, pp. UEA, , pp. Du brauchst nicht mehr zu denken […] dies Angedeutete noch zu afrikanischer Hitze und Brunst gesteigert: The difficulties of the relationship between art, language and the world were elucidated more fully in September In other words, Becher was experiencing at first hand that modernist problematic in which everything — language, self and world — threatens to dissolve into an overwhelming disorder.

For Becher, even religion and the Bible were an option in this period,99 and his emphasis on the perceived solidity of Cologne Cathedral in contrast to the lack of clarity in German life forms a striking image of his search for a resolution, which also, it seems, had involved him reading Nietzsche, Spengler!

Bachmair of 19 April Versuch einer Mythologie Berlin: Equipped with the long-term historical perspective that he had lacked in , Becher was able to project the Communist utopia into the future, and account for both his past disorientation and the general disorder of the present. The clarity of vision that he had acquired was expressed succinctly in a letter of 8 April For both, such commitment was a further attempt to contain the problems experienced by the conservative imagination.

Dix recorded man as beast, man as victim of a technological world, but above all man as brute life-form. War appeared to the initially enthusiastic Dix as a catalyst which renewed a vital human force that had been concealed by civilisation, bringing new life to a moribund culture. Iggers Frankfurt am Main, etc. Further, Dwars, Abgrund des Widerspruchs: Das Leben des Johannes R. Oldenbourg, , pp. Thus, his Kriegstriptychon and the melancholic Flandern involve another strategy for dealing with the supremely modern experience of the War.

The power of artillery, gas and machine guns did for the participants, and especially for the intellectuals among them, precisely what Deconstruction would do to the New Criticism from the comfort of the ivory towers of Cf. His Life and Works, trans. Benedikt, , pp. But even when these strategies seemed to work, we have also seen how they could be profoundly ambivalent and unstable, full of contradictions whose effects are profoundly subversive, deconstructing precisely that classical modern world their conservative imaginations were struggling so hard to re-build.

Theory and Practice London and New York: Revised edition, first published An Analytical Biography 4. In this context then, the outbreak of War in seemed to promise, as it did for so many others, a real chance for both liberation from a society perceived as repressive and inadequate and re-integration into a system of values seen to be above those of conventional bourgeois society.

Into the Abyss London: Likewise, the two document collections published so far should not be taken as exhaustive or scholarly. The first, Die Schleife: In Die Schleife, Mohler brings together some early autobiographical texts and a number of previously unpublished letters which have mostly been ignored by critics suspicious of even considering biographical materials. Mit 5 Abbildungen und dem Bilde des Verfassers Hanover: The Author, [Nb.

Leben und Werk in Bildern und Texten, Stuttgart: I shall not be referring to them as I am not writing a detailed biography and because the published material serves my purposes in this chapter adequately. Naturwissenschaften — vor allem Chemie — und Geschichte gaben die Grundpfeiler. Eine Ausnahme bildete die Skagerrakschlacht, die er studierte wie eine Schachpartie. Dem leistete auch jeder bedeutendere Lehrer Beihilfe.

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Siebzig verweht III Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, , entry of 3 November , p. Klett-Cotta, , pp. Klett-Cotta, , entry of 15 April , p. Klett-Cotta, , III Strahlungen II , pp. In the last chapter, I outlined how modernity could be seen to turn against itself as the impulse towards subjective autonomy came into conflict with the discipline and organisation demanded by modern industrial technology. The emergence of universal education was a necessary corollary of mass, industrialised society and was pursued with particular vigour in Prussia and Germany as a quite conscious form of preparation for national industrial and military competitiveness and in which technical demands increasingly prevailed over the status of traditional humanistic education.

In this system, time was as strictly managed as any other aspect of the school and the individual rhythms of body and mind were corseted into the school timetable. Or, as Ulrich Bendele describes time in the Wilhelmine school: Ullstein, , p. Siebzig verweht III, entry of 2 April , p. Das Abenteuerliche Herz, pp. Siebzig verweht V Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, , entry of 17 December , p.

Ein exotischer Reiz war ihnen nicht abzusprechen pp. Wie flieht die Zeit beim Wandern und beim Schauen! His plan was, apparently, to reach North Africa with the Legion, desert and make his way to what he imagined would be the primitive reaches of central Africa where he could lead some sort of grandiose life. In reality, however, he was bitterly disappointed to find North Africa thoroughly under the influence of its European colonists.

However, the reaction of the 24 Schwilk, p. On the back is written: These were scrupulously edited out in the process of composing In Stahlgewittern. Der kommt aus die Legion [sic]. The legionnaire then concludes: Kriegsausbruch As we saw in Chapter 3. In this text, the outbreak of war, the presence of the Lower Saxon countryside symbolising Germany, and the overcoming of social divisions when all three went on to celebrate in the local pub combine to produce an idealised memory of August made more powerful by the knowledge of the actual War shared by the author and the readers of the time.

Ein Leben im Umbruch der Zeit Berlin: February and March are spent on a training course in Recouvrence. At the end of November he is promoted to Lieutenant. Der Erste Weltkrieg, pp. Strahlungen III, entry of 29 March , p. The Stellungskampf in Artois continues. He returns to the front in November and is assigned to Divisional Intelligence as a reconnaissance officer and is wounded again near St.

He is awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class. He returns to the Regiment and again becomes a reconnaissance officer.

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In March he commands a patrol covering the German retreat from the Somme. In May the Regiment takes up positions on the Siegfried Line. The Regiment then moves to Cambrai for training. October sees him in Flanders again in the area around Paschendaele, once more as a reconnaissance officer. In late November the Regiment is involved in the successful counter-attack against the British tank offensive at Cambrai. Stokes of the 2nd Batn. Royal Munster Fusiliers was killed on patrol in front of his position.

He rejoins the Regiment in June in an exposed position around Puisieux-le-Mont, fighting British advances against the odds. In August, the Regiment undertakes a desperate counter-offensive near Cambrai. In other words, he was involved in those battles which saw the highest casualties and the highest concentrations of fire-power and thus also inflicted the greatest sense of anti-modern absurdity, chaos and ambivalence.

The original war diaries of the 73rd Fusiliers were destroyed in a bombing raid on Potsdam in Order and Disorder Writ Large 4. Anti-smuggling duty in Eitorf on the border with British occupied territory. Publication of In Stahlgewittern1 by himself. Leaves the Reichswehr at the end of August.

In October he enrols at Leipzig University to study zoology. Although the illusions of August had rapidly been replaced by the realities of extended periods of lethal trench warfare, the Army kept on fighting until Ludendorff was forced to capitulate. With the humanist and positivist certainties of the pre-war era left behind in Flanders and on the Somme, there seemed nothing left which 35 Schwilk, pp. Siebzig verweht III, entry of 12 December , pp.

Here, the metaphors of dissolution and fluidity, even in , are striking: A similar feeling of being caught in a dangerous flow of unpredictable events can be detected in a letter of 18 November from Ernst to Friedrich Georg which reports on his encounter with a group of revolutionary soldiers who had searched the family house in Rehburg Mohler, p.

By contrast, another letter to Friedrich Georg of 30 May Schwilk, p. Des Coudres, unnumbered file. Becher during the same period. On 20 January he wrote to Friedrich Georg: And on 30 March he wrote to his parents: Ich bin reichlich zersplittert [my emphasis — JK]. Und dann die Zeit.

I shall now examine those strategies of reorientation which he describes in the letters published by Mohler and Schwilk. Even if sobriety means that this fleeting impression is lost, its significance is remembered. On 4 March , he wrote to Friedrich Georg: The reference to the ancient Greek symposium is unmistakable.

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Nevertheless, the heteroglossia involved in a symposium, its multi-faceted approaches and its promise of absolute insight which is not dependent on the individual. The fragmented personality is reconstituted and it is no longer the fallible individual who perceives the world but rather the drinkers as a collective, in the communion of alcohol and Geist. Thus, on 27 August , he reported to Friedrich Georg on his reading whilst confined to bed suffering from flu: While two letters to Friedrich Georg, one of 28 December Mohler, p.

In a letter to Friedrich Georg of 16 March he describes the necessity for military theorists to understand the process of battle: Neu bearbeitet von Dr. Strahlungen IV, entry of 18 July ,. Leaving aside the more or less explicit political content, Spengler attempted, with reference to much obscure learning, to arrive at an integrative view of history which asserted that all cultures follow a predetermined pattern — an extremely modern view in its move away from traditional Eurocentrism, even if it did provide the basis for a reactionary, German nationalist politics.

In other words, his reaction to Spengler appears to deal with more fundamental issues. He seems to have begun with Goethe,43 and on 7 January he reported to Friedrich Georg that his spare time in Eitorf was spent riding and hunting but that otherwise: Siebzig verweht I, entry of 8 May A year later, his horizon seems to have widened considerably to include works of Catholic spirituality as well as classical historians, and thus, on 16 March , Ernst wrote to Friedrich Georg that: And one year further on, his ambitions included painting and architecture, and so, on 27 August , he reported to Friedrich Georg: Unter diesem Winkel bestimme ich dann meine Verwandtschaften.

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