Schatten der Geschichte. Europäische Profile
Shadow of History. European Profiles

Author(s): Valeriu Marcu
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, History of ideas, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: Jean-Paul Marat; Antoine de Rivarol; Jack London; David Hume; Charles Baudelaire; Joseph Caillaux; Charles Maurras; Aristide Briand; Grigorij Sinowjew; Christian Rakowski; Charles Rappoport; Karl Radek;
Summary/Abstract: Published in 1929 by Paul List Verlag, Leipzig. // Author’s introduction( written in times when gender-neutral language was still unknown. We trust the reader’s capacity, to read un-neutral wording with, nevertheless, neutral understanding): When a young man looks at the world through the curious eyes of a twenty year old, he falls in love with principles. He believes that he can derive everything from principles, and through them alone he can understand everything. Like a theologian, he wants to capture the content of ideas and states in sentences in order to then polemicize against the “universe”. There is more optimism than arrogance in this rebellion. Soon, however, painful processes begin that have to be endured in order to achieve independence, the autonomy of one's own thinking. “Man - says Hegel - must make himself what he should be; he must first acquire everything himself ... So the spirit is his own result.” That is why I say to myself today, without mourning or rejoicing, that this book only reflects a mood of life that I shared with friends, and which was a drop from the general experience of the first half decade after 1918.

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