Think Classical

Philosophical Musings on Music http://thinkclassical.blogspot.com/

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Some people take the Wagner comic satire in war time propaganda too seriously

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David Strauss: The Life of Jesus. It was called "the most pestilential book ever vomited out of the jaws of hell"

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Parsifal: A Theology After the Death of God

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Parsifal: A Theology After the Death of God

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Review of "Hitler's Philosophers" by Yvonne Sherratt: a Thatcherite View of German Philosophy

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A rightfully scathing review of Yvonne Sherratt's piece of pulp fiction in the guise of history by Sir Richard J. Evans:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/hitlers-philosophers-by-yvonne-sherratt/2001795.article

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It is important to learn hope… Its work does not despair, it falls in love with success rather than with failure. - Ernst Bloch (8 Jul 1885 – 4 Aug 1977)

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Once a German—Always a German? Or is this just propagandist stereotype of all Germans unhelpful to perpetuate in our age?

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Kurt Vonnegut's fantastic 1978 commencement address

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The real historical background to German thinkers of the past. A history about which Yvonne Sherratt demonstrates the most grossly abject ignorance

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Sherrat's ultra right-wing historiography sees everything in Germany history for centuries leading up to WWII as a teleological progress towards the climax of Nazis: just as in Nazis propaganda

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"All who have hearts, all who have the blood and spirit of their 

forefathers, and love their country follow me, and death to the tyrant.”

Richard Wagner, 1849

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Hitler admires a bust of Nietzsche. But what really were the intellectual influences on him? And how has speculation on this subject been abused for self-serving polemical purposes?

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Nazi opera conspiracies: a right-wing rewriting of history. How the religious right is writing another fictional pseudo-history of the Dritte Reich. 

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"All who have hearts, all who have the blood and spirit of their 

forefathers, and love their country follow me, and death to the tyrant.”

Richard Wagner, 1849

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The Part II of a critique of Peter Viereck's Metapolitics consists of a book review of Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis by Michael Haas

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Allied war propaganda insinuated that Hitler was gay and had only one testicle. It also claimed that the Nazis based their official state policies on opera. This seems to the source of Joachim Köhler's widely ridiculed Nazi opera conspiracy in which he stated that “reality meant for [Hitler] the task of transforming the world into a Wagnerian drama”.