Monatsarchive: Mai 2018

The phrasing of articles over the past weeks from the BBC, Guardian, Spiegel, Die Zeit, is all of intelligent rational actors – Macron, Merkel, Johnson – engaging with a twit. Emmanuel Macron’s thesis for his master’s level degree was on … Weiterlesen →

Their new Secretary for War was a barrister with a passion for German philosophy, Richard Haldane, who, when asked by the soldiers in Council what kind of army he had in mind, replied, “A Hegelian army.” “The conversation then fell … Weiterlesen →

The cathedral really is magnificent. The Monday Demonstrations here started at Barlach’s Ehrenmal, one of the few places in a church where it made sense to me to light a candle.

Memory, forgetting, the manner in which people and states remember a past which never was, greatly interest me. I’ve read before about how the word ‚holocaust‘ became appropriated for the usage it has in the US today. I found this … Weiterlesen →

A hundred years of German philosophy went into the making of this decision in which the seed of self-destruction lay embedded, waiting for its hour. The voice was Schlieffen’s, but the hand was the hand of Fichte who saw the … Weiterlesen →

While reading Tuchman’s Guns of August I started researching the Schlieffen Plan to find that Tuchman’s take on German strategy, which was what I was taught in the 1980s and seems to have been the generally received truth in the US … Weiterlesen →