Word: sieburth
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...leisurely commentary on German University life, with its Bismarckian politics, Junker fraternities, duels and drinking bouts - everything, in. short, but intellectualism. To point the narrative Sudermann projects a philosophical genius into the stolid pussyfooting faculty, and predicates the dangerous futility of his in dependent thinking. That Professor Sieburth should have independent ideas strikes the faculty as bad enough, but that he should live his ideas is intolerable...
...fascinated students Sieburth had paraphrased Schopenhauer as "the World in Terms of Woman and Thought''; then proceeded to demonstrate the philosophy in person. His women he took indiscriminately from exclusive faculty circles or from the streets and brothels - one died of despair, another married out of spite, and yet another, jealous, ruined his career. As for thought, Sieburth dissipated it in drunken orgies, then gave it up as futile; killed himself...
...particular history of Sieburth, genius, is unconvincing. Sudermann's general thesis is none the less cogent. And his analysis of masculine reasoning, as op posed to feminine blind unreasoning, has an uncanny authenticity...