[Juenger-list] Re: DIE SCHERE #67: Text and rough translation

[rbakker@mail.uba.uva.nl (Rene de Bakker)]

At 21:50 13-1-01 +0100, you wrote:
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>EJ, DIE SCHERE #67: Text and rough translation
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>Wirtschaftliche und politische Erfolge beschleunigen die Verflachung,
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>sie den Umsatz beg=FCnstigen. Der Einschnitt nach 1870 wurde von Burckhardt
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>Nietzsche geb=FChrend registriert. Vor ihnen hatte Goethe den Verlust
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>die Romantiker ihn beklagt.
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>Economic and political triumphs hasten the tendency towards trivialization
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>they favour business. The sea-change after 1870 was duly noted by
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>Nietzsche. Earlier, Goethe had feared the loss, the Romantics had mourned
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Juenger doesn't say, that economic and political triumphs cause
trivialization,
they hasten it. In order to do that, trivialization must be already there.

greeting,

Ren=E9
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