[Juenger-list] Simmel & Jünger (2)

[robert.steuckers@skynet.be (Robert Steuckers)]

Dear Mr. Wimbauer,

Thank you for your information. Indeed, I took Meyer's book out of my
shelves and checked. Meyer mentions only Simmel in order to compare his
intuitions on modern life to the ones of J=FCnger. The similarities between
the judgements of both men indicates that there were general trends in the
German culture and people had the feeling that Western civilization, having
culminated in the "Belle Epoque", took a path leading to decay and death.
This is what Simmel called the "tragedy of culture". Cultural productions
lose their inner potentialities after some time (decades or centuries),
become "dead forms" that choke human creativity. Heidegger took this idea
over, looked around him for a political solution, and thought for a while
that national-socialisme would have cured the German part of the Western
civilization, so starting a rebirth process. Two books seem to me
interesting in explaining Heidegger's positions in a non passionate way
(i.e. not like Farias did some years ago):
Bernd MARTIN, Martin Heidegger und das "Dritte Reich". Ein Kompendium,
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1989, ISBN 3-534-10929-5.
Hans SLUGA, Heidegger's Crisis. Philosophy and Politics in Nazi
Germany,Harvard University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-674-38711-2.
And of course, a book that became rapidly a "classic":
R=FCdiger SAFRANSKY, Ein Meister aus Deutschland. Heidegger und seine Zeit,
now in pocket edition: Fischer Taschenbuch, ISBN 3-596-50128-8.

I hope everyone will take profit of a careful reading of those three
important books.

Yours sincerely

Robert Steuckers.
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>De=A0: Tobias Wimbauer <wimbauer@web.de>
>=C0 : Robert Steuckers <robert.steuckers@skynet.be>, juenger-list@juenger.or=
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>Objet=A0: Re: [Juenger-list] Simmel & J=FCnger
>Date=A0: Lun 5 f=E9v 2001 12:47
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>Robert Steuckers schrieb:
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>> Dear Mr. Guilmain,
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>> I don't know if there is any direct reference to Simmel in J=FCnger's jour=
nals
>> or other works. ...
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>There is no direct reference to Simmel in J's journals. (cf. T.W.,
>Personenregister der Tageb=FCcher Ernst J=FCngers. Freiburg 1999).
>With kind regards,
>Tobias Wimbauer
>www.waldgaenger.de
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