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This is all nice, but it still doesn't convince you to buy (or steal, or purloin) this book. Here goes. One thing this book is obviously about is the Nazi Holocaust, the relationship of philosophy to such an ideology and the possibility of understanding the Holocaust...
Clean spun his "Death Fugue" around the images of "black milk of morning" and the "ashen-haired Shumlamith" of Goethe's Faust, weaving the drinking in of the dead burned in the Nazi ovens with a force competing for the soul of Germany. Derrida talks of wanting the only phrase worth publishing, "an 'up to date' phrase" (recalling the dates of "Shibboleth"). He wants a phrase that "would tell of the all-burning, otherwise called holocaust, and the crematory oven, in German in all the Jewish languages of the world...
...office and himself. He betrays a weakness of character -- a lack of grace, and guts, under pressure. His campaign for re-election hasn't even got tough. So far he faces opposition from a conservative pundit and TV talking head who has never run for dogcatcher, a former Nazi and Ku Klux Klan Pooh-Bah who was recently rejected by the good people of Louisiana, and a Democratic field that has yet to close ranks behind a compelling candidate or a coherent platform. Yet already Bush is running scared. Even when he is more than 5,000 miles from...
GERMANY. Alienated youths known as skinheads have shown terrifying power to unleash violence against foreigners, especially in what was formerly East Germany. There the populace went from Nazi to communist totalitarianism without any democratic interval. So far, unification has brought economic instability rather than prosperity and has wiped out the state-subsidized clubs that used to keep the young off the streets...
Every major orchestra in the world performs Wagner, without whom nearly the entire history of 20th century music is incomprehensible, including the works of such great Jewish composers as Mahler and Schoenberg. Neither Mahler nor Schoenberg could be performed in Nazi Germany solely because they were Jews; should Wagner suffer, in principle, the same fate...