Considerazioni di un impolitico

This is a painful book to get through. Everything that MAGA (make American Great again) wannabe fascist morons believe in is part of the author’s reality but he sees it from a pre-Nazi Germany not a Trumpian dystopian point-of-view. To understand today’s rot in American politics brought on by Trump a Leggi tutto

Written during the last years of the First World War - this book gives us a glimpse and helps us understand what Germany stood up for during that time. Mann is rallying the German nationalism around the likes of Luther, Schopenhauer, Wagner, Nietzsche, Goethe, and Dostoevsky against democracy, indiv Leggi tutto

Το πρόβλημα του να έχεις διαβάσει ένα βιβλίο (εκδόθηκε το 2001) το έτος κυκλοφορίας του, είναι πως δεν θυμάσαι απαραίτητα και πολλά εν έτει 2018. Ιδίως εφόσον έχει να κάνει με ιδέες, απόψεις πολιτικό-κοινωνικής υφής. Είναι προφανές πως εφόσον ο συγγραφέας είναι ο Τ. Mann το ενδιαφέρον (το δικό μου) Leggi tutto

Bekanntlich ist dieser Essayband während des Ersten Weltkriegs entstanden und nach 1918 hätte Thomas Mann ihn gerne zurückgezogen. Seine politische Einstellung hat sich geändert. Das Buch war für mich in Etappen lesbar, man braucht die volle Konzentration.

Durante la 1ª Guerra Mundial, Thomas Mann dejó a un lado su novela en curso "La montaña mágica" para escribir este volumen, abatido e irritable como no lo estaría ni siquiera en su posterior exilio. En estas Consideraciones no se refiere solamente a la decadencia, a la guerra como proceso de regener Leggi tutto

his main thesis seems to be that politics and aesthetics (including morality and daily life) are antithetical, the former French in character and the latter german. written during ww1, so very much of this is wrong or regrettable considering the 30s and 40s. the substance is all in his evaluations o Leggi tutto

Nem igazán tudom megmagyarázni magamnak, miért gondoltam, hogy a karácsonyi hajtás idején jó ötlet lesz pont ezt a könyvet olvasni – valahogy megkívántam, így alakult. Mann első világháború derekán íródott hegynyi esszéje korszerűtlen elmélkedés a háborúról, demokráciáról, németekről, művészetről és Leggi tutto

Thomas Mann trägt in diesem Werk einen Kampf mit der Welt, dem Jahrhundert, seinem Bruder, vor allem aber mit sich selbst aus, um seinen Platz in einer Welt zu finden, in der er noch zu irren scheint.

I bought this book hoping to learn more about Thomas Mann whose masterful work "Magic Mountain" so entranced and moved me. Unfortunately, however, I discovered -- despite warning descriptions of the book ahead of time -- that this collection of essays, largely written near the outset of the Great War Leggi tutto

I just finished Toibin’s novelized biography of Thomas Mann and followed up by reading this rerelease of “Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man”, whose release coincided nicely with that of Toibin’s book. It is nonfiction, a set of essays, and thus different from Mann’s more popular fiction. The book pre Leggi tutto