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With brilliant sillies like Hegel...
...think that Auden was reduced to calling Hegel silly and could think of no better way to describe Mozart than "a genius." Sometimes, reading Thank You, Fog, you wonder if Auden isn't parodying himself and his early poetry, from which he grew to feel so remote that he revised many of the most successful passages and even excised some of his most famous poems from new editions. While he once kept light and serious verse considerably apart, in Thank You, Fog he mixes them with such a dead-pan expression that he is rarely very serious or very witty...
...discussing the masters' ideology, Genovese relies heavily on the writings of Antonio Gramsci, the author of the The Modern Prince who helped to found the Italian Communist party. Gramsci is just one of dozens of the unexpected writers cited in Roll, Jordan, Roll--the others range from Hegel, Brecht, T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell to historians of Italian slavery and traditional Japan. But Genovese devotes special attention to Gramsci, with his stress on the role played by a society's ruling ideas in ligitmizing--indeed, giving the appearance of inevitability to--its practice, not just among the ruling class...
Despite the fact that Tatlin! offers an intriguing introduction to particular historical figures and events it also suffers at times from an insufferable degree of learning. Sometimes reading parts of it is like entering into the middle of a high-powered philosophical discussion of Hegel. In fact, Tatlin! could be called the first collection of a new genre: the short story of ideas. Like the novel of ideas each story does not simply attempt to mirror reality but to create a new world of the imagination that is a separate and additional part of reality. In a way Davenport...
...Thomas Carlyle who articulated the beginning of the modern romantic cycle. "The history of the world," he wrote in 1841, "is but the biography of great men." Hitler elaborated the argument with Hegel's theory of the "world-historical figure" ? the heroic genius who emerges when the historical moment is right to lead a people to their preordained destiny...