Posted by Sigismund on July 9, 2009, at 21:45:08
In reply to Re: Western Habits of Thought, posted by Angela2 on July 9, 2009, at 20:29:09
Hello Angela
I think the reflection is on the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with either classes or races slated for extinction. The suggestion is that it is the habit of abstraction within western thought that makes those kinds of ambitious projects conceivable (as opposed to pacifying a province by killing every second person). The idea might be that it is a Christian idea of progress and meaningfulness in history that has been refracted through the Enlightenment thinkers. I've only read Black Mass, and thought it was particularly good. It is actually a straight old fashioned conservative argument. I've ordered The Politics of Hysteria through my library so I may be able to read that too.
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