Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:21:32 +0100 From: Jan Straathof <janstr-AT-chan.nl> Subject: Re: translation on Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:06 <Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com> wrote: >I don't know the exact details of this part of Wittgenstein's life, but it >seems to me that in this time, a Gay teacher would have had a short career, >irregardless of evidence. Often people don't need evidence, a good witch >hunt will often suffice, nicht wahr? Paul, i guess you're quite right, being gay was (and still is) viewed as a grave abnormality in a masculine society as Austria, but i'm not aware of any direct evidence for this. Of what i know, it were Wittgenstein's religious and pedagogical ideals that were the main cause of conflict. As i wrote in my previous post, at that time Wittgenstein was truly wedded to the utopian ideas of the Tolstoi-Movement, particularly its mystical Urchristendom and its emphasis on a broad form of popular education. (Volksbildungsstaetten) But these austrian peasants didn't want a village teacher that was planting all kinds of 'modernist' (anti-institutional) religious ideas in the minds and hearts of their children, and neither did they appreciate his didactical innovations (cf. the broad curriculum i mentioned a post before) because this took a lot of (extra) school time, and the peasants wanted their kids at home early so they could help with the farm-work. yours, Jan "Aus der fruehen Kultur wird ein Truemmerhaufen und am Schluss ein Aschenhaufen werden, aber es werden Geister ueber der Asche schweben." --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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