Word: benda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...episode, scarcely enough to sustain a novel. Habe's book is upholstered with plot digressions, epigrams ("the everlasting exchange of deceptions which we call social life"), philosophizing and methodical character analyses beneath which the characters themselves threaten to disappear. The figure of Habe's protagonist, Heinrich von Benda, is so overburdened with the mantle of tragedy that his death, of a heart attack in the train bearing him back to occupied Vienna, comes as a kind of comic relief...
...situation-which existed in the U.S. as well as Europe -was described in 1927 by a French intellectual named Julien Benda in a book titled The Treason of the Intellectuals. The "treason" did not consist of disloyalty to their nations, as Benda saw it, but in the fact that intellectuals had abandoned detachment for political passion, and stopped thinking independently. While many intellectuals saw themselves as lonely rebels, heresy became a group affair, and protest turned into a community sing. Alternately repelled and fascinated by violence, dreaming both of power and of justice, intellectuals overwhelmingly (if not unanimously) embraced Marxism...
...RUDOLF BENDA, M.D. Austinville...
...about sex has almost from the gamut of guilt feelings. relations are about the only safe in this uncertain world," Benda...
...must achieve a will enable each person "to fulfill, and actualize his own Benda declared. He stressed the of the will, by which the accepts responsibility and self-limitations. "The man of our a man of a broken will," Benda...