Friday, April 29, 2016

Status . . .

. .. quo
(from Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods)
". . . But since this was not a matter of praise or censure, but simply a factual observation and determination, and since there is always some approbation in every dispassionate recognition of reality, stemming simply from the joy of recognizing it, how could such views not be linked to a multifaceted, indeed comprehensive critique of the bourgeois tradition - by which I mean values like culture, enlightenment, humanity, and dreams like the improvement of nations through significant civilization? That those who offered this critique - offered it jauntily and frequently accompanied by smug, intellectually amused laughter - were men of culture, education and science, lent the mater its especially prickly and disconcerting or slightly perverse charm . . . "





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