From: John Young <jya-AT-pipeline.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 12:29:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Nietzsche as Existentialist (was masks)  



Responding to msg by jbmorgan-AT-umich.edu ("John B. Morgan") on 
Fri, 3 Nov  8:39 AM


>Don't forget Kierkegaard.


Indeed. Why is it that mad Nietzsche is topical while 
forgetting sad Kierkegaard?


In the heyday of topical, mispronounceable, existentialism, 
they were linked, madly, sadly, badly.  To pump the publishing 
mill of topical manic depression, Freudianly, the other 
oft-trumpeted triumvirator of discomfiting the burgers.


Mass-market Pub-Pantheon of mischief-makers: Kafka, 
Doestoyevsky, Pater Husserl, the Youngs -- Young Marx, Young 
Hegel, Young Nietzsche -- the Middle Agers -- Anselm,  Aquinas, 
yes, Aquinas, the oxiest of the grey foxes of 
paleo-existentialism ... Young Heidegger's patron.


Jacques Maritain. Bertrand Russell.


Those magnificent Church and Protestant and mixed-breed and 
Anglican-linguistic disputes of the half-century. Far fewer 
consumers of popular philosophy, then, far more for sundry 
pol/eco/soc religions. Then issued the post-war B-Boom and the 
demand for patrons of the demanding young galore.


Baby philosophy for babes, mall-marketed, innocent of the 
ancient nasty nut-stuff.





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