Thirty years ago the musician Blixa Bargeld said in an interview with an American,
“That culture which existed before the war is rightly forbidden to us, because of what it led to—or at best, did not prevent… You had Bugs Bunny before, during and after the war. The war you won. The point I am trying to make is that the German tradition is gone. We hate our culture and our language. All our philosophy and music was appropriated by the Nazis: Dürer, Bach, Friedrich N-Punkt! We cannot redeem that tradition. We can only re-invent.”
My impression of German philosophy after the war is that Heidegger went off to hide in a forest, reemerging only to warn that cybernetics was going to replace metaphysics, and meanwhile Habermas became the new national philosopher, allowing some kind of compatibility with the hegemonic Anglo liberalism.
In fact, one of the slogans of Habermas is “communicative rationality”, so maybe he’s in the cultural background of German rationalism?
Thirty years ago the musician Blixa Bargeld said in an interview with an American,
“That culture which existed before the war is rightly forbidden to us, because of what it led to—or at best, did not prevent… You had Bugs Bunny before, during and after the war. The war you won. The point I am trying to make is that the German tradition is gone. We hate our culture and our language. All our philosophy and music was appropriated by the Nazis: Dürer, Bach, Friedrich N-Punkt! We cannot redeem that tradition. We can only re-invent.”
My impression of German philosophy after the war is that Heidegger went off to hide in a forest, reemerging only to warn that cybernetics was going to replace metaphysics, and meanwhile Habermas became the new national philosopher, allowing some kind of compatibility with the hegemonic Anglo liberalism.
In fact, one of the slogans of Habermas is “communicative rationality”, so maybe he’s in the cultural background of German rationalism?
I definitely like this.