File spoon-archives/frankfurt-school.archive/frankfurt-school_2000/frankfurt-school.0005, message 21


Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 10:39:05 -0400
From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.org>
Subject: Re: tom wolfe-epictetus-frankfurt


At 12:01 AM 05/05/2000 -0500, Christopher Gunn wrote:
>get back to the real Frankfurt stuff, i.e., what Adorno, Horkheimer, Reich,
>Marcuse, Fromm had to say prior to about 1950

Reich was involved with the Frankfurt School in some way?

Re the cure, see Marx against Stirner in THE GERMAN IDEOLOGY.

>And no, people like Wolfe don't expect to be down at the rallies.  Elitists
>of that sort prescribe fascism for the masses so that they'll leave the
>better sort of people alone.

The love of affair of intellectuals with fascism is often purely
theoretical and a one-way street.  Yeats loved the Blue Shirts from afar
until he found them so vulgar up close they didn't seem like the sort of
stuff to save Culture from the masses.  Dali was too much of a freak to
find his pro-fascsim reciprocated, and later the Pope wasn't interested in
hanging up his Madonna-inspired-by-quantum-physics pcitures in the Vatican.
 Heidegger never succeeded in getting the Nazis to adopt his philosophy.
Carl Jung thought Franco would save Christian civilization but he wasn't
going to get off his morbid introverted mystical ass to help them.  So it
goes.




   

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