Frank Peter’s Reviews > De ondergang van het avondland. Schets van een morfologie van de wereldgeschiedenis. I. Gestalte en werkelijkheid > Status Update
Frank Peter
is on page 89 of 544
Intro done. So far so not-really-fascist, although I can see where the Blut und Boden stuff would come in, as S. emphasizes 'cultures/civilizations' are rooted in time & place. No universality.
At the same time that's also what makes it 'culturally relativistic'. In fact S. is explicit in saying 'the West' should *not* be seen as better or higher than the other cultures/civilizations he discusses. No absolutes.
— May 26, 2019 01:59AM
At the same time that's also what makes it 'culturally relativistic'. In fact S. is explicit in saying 'the West' should *not* be seen as better or higher than the other cultures/civilizations he discusses. No absolutes.
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Frank Peter
is on page 141 of 544
Chapter 1 'on numbers' was hard to read & with little payoff, although to be fair I skipped about the last 3rd of it. Like the mad ramblings of a math teacher during a nervous breakdown. His main point was that math is not universal, but relative to culture, like the styles of music. Greeks had a conception of numbers still rooted in physics & finite; our conception is abstract & infinite.
Made me think of quitting
— May 26, 2019 06:30AM
Made me think of quitting
