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Reflection on an Anecdote about Goethe and Hoelderlin

The Friendenthal biography of Goethe relates the following anecdote about one of the few occasions on which Goethe met Hoelderlin: It was at some minor social event, and Hoelderlin approached Goethe to challenge him about something to do with the public. Goethe notoriously was, at various times, indifferent or apathetic or cynical about the needs, wants, thoughts and capabilities of the public peo Read more of this blog post »
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Published on June 27, 2019 16:28 Tags: german, germany, goethe, hoelderlin, holderlin, schiller
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Elements of the Philosophy of Right by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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NEW-The Iliad by Homer
"Il est toujours près des bateaux, sans pleures, sans rites, Patrocole. Je ne l’oublierai pas, tant que je serai avec les vivants et que mes genoux pourront bouger, et si dans l‘Hadès on oublie les morts, même là je me rappellerai mon cher compagnon"
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Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
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Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem by Heinrich Meier
"All-around great work. Chapter "On the Genealogy of Faith in Revelation" is especially worth reading. "
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The New Testament by David Bentley Hart
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Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner
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Weiner's main theses about the CIA are that it has consistently failed to serve its primary role as an intelligence-gathering operation, and that in its other capacities it is generally incompetent. The book is a series of short, roughly ten-page cha ...more
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