Word: hegel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this last point, Leifer and I disagree, as you might expect. Gordon's nationalism is no different from that German madness against which Buber warned the Jews in 1933. Universalist Christians (I use the adjective to weed Hegel out) have always maintained that the nation-state is a necessary evil, and that one's higher loyalties are to God and mankind. Leifer swallows Gordon's odd Germanic idea that the nation is the locus of man's creativity, that there are "no human ideals which are not national ideals." Gordon, it must be said, did tend to think of Israel...
...Heidelberg reigned supreme throughout Germany. In philosophy, it boasted Hegel and later Karl Jaspers. In literature, it was a vibrant center of Germany's early 19th century Romantics (Brentano, Eichendorff, Holderlin). In natural sciences, it abounded with men like Bunsen and Kirchhoff, who in 1860 demonstrated spectrum analysis, and Helmholtz, one of the founders of the law of the conservation of energy. In medicine, it was a world-famed mecca, and over the years its professors won seven Nobel Prizes...
While intrinsic quality and historical significance are obviously interrelated, they are not always the same. Musical values today resemble Hegel's fallacy that what is significant is necessarily best...
...budget; the same school's Economist Edward S. Mason was off surveying the economy of Uganda. Other Harvard absentees: Government Professor Arthur A. Maass (studying the water laws of Spain), Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (lecturing on the West Coast), Government Professor Carl Friedrich (at a Texas seminar on Hegel) and Economist John T. Dunlop (mediating for the construction industry). Students who came to sit at the feet of such scholars could well ask: Where are they...
...Seine in a 1959 bestselling novel, Zazie has become almost as influential as Colette's Gigi at the height of La Belle Epoque. Critics have compared Zazie's creator-Raymond Queneau, a distinguished poet and chief reader at the Gallimard publishing house-to Flaubert, Stendhal, Hugo and Hegel. (One angry dissenter: Nobel Prize Laureate François Mauriac...