On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 14:18:14 -0700 (PDT) Chris Doss
<lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> writes:
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> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > > Creativity and thuggishness are not
> > > > "contradictories" , are they ?
> >
> > My point exactly. But most of the high class talent
> > fled the Nazis, Schmitt, Heidegger, and (more
> > ambiguously) Riefenstahl and Heisenberg being
> > exceptions. Apparently even Junger found them to
> > thuggish.
>
>
> Junger's anti-Nazi book Marble Cliffs rocks.
>
> Heidegger, I believe, was trailed and watched by the
> Gestapo in the late 1930s.
Maybe so, but as the rector at Freiberg he purged the faculty there of Jewish professors including his old teacher, Edmund Husserl. It's true that he wrote letters of recommendation for many of these professors so they could get jobs abroad but he was still a thug who enforced Nazi policies at the university.
>
> I think Charles wants to condemn Western (whatever
> that means when talking about ancient Macedonia)
> civilization en masse. He's not uptight over Genghis
> Khan, who ruled over the largest empire in history.
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
>
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