moominek at aol.com wrote:
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> Sorry, I didn't understand your use of "milieu". If "early 20th century europe" is a mileu (in singular!), then your thesis is not wrong. But to show that, you should look for documents showing the commonalites between "early 20th century european working class culture" in England, Germany, Italy, Russia, France, Bulgaria, ... - and "early 20th century european rural culture" in all these countries and "early 20th century high culture" and so on and on: I think there are not so many commonalities out of the inner circle of the MMM: The Magic Mountain Milieu.
Oh come on. I bet they all breathed oxygen. That proves that fascists are 17th-c levelers and communists are royalists, and they are all a big sop and why should philosohers worry about it.
Carrol