It was me, I said it was nice communists and fascists each have an impressive-looking unreadable big black book they can put on their shelves and not read. I once read a very good essay comparing Lukacs and Eliot if not Pound on the shared ground of anti-liberal romantic anti-capitalism, as summarized here:
Good post. The interesting thing about Frazier, as you may know, is that while his actual if not quite overt aim was skeptical (to question religion by associating it with magic), he was often taken to be revealing an esoteric truth behind religion, as in “The Wasteland.”
I wouldn’t put East Germany in the same category as fascist Italy, despite its repressive regime
Yes, I probably wouldn’t make that direct comparison either, though Lukacs’ embrace of the Stalin-era USSR seems comparable in practice if not quite in theory. That’s quite true about Frazier! Thanks for commenting!
It was me, I said it was nice communists and fascists each have an impressive-looking unreadable big black book they can put on their shelves and not read. I once read a very good essay comparing Lukacs and Eliot if not Pound on the shared ground of anti-liberal romantic anti-capitalism, as summarized here:
https://grandhotelabyss.tumblr.com/post/680296737558200320/michael-north-eliot-luk%C3%A1cs-and-the-politics
Good post. The interesting thing about Frazier, as you may know, is that while his actual if not quite overt aim was skeptical (to question religion by associating it with magic), he was often taken to be revealing an esoteric truth behind religion, as in “The Wasteland.”
I wouldn’t put East Germany in the same category as fascist Italy, despite its repressive regime
Yes, I probably wouldn’t make that direct comparison either, though Lukacs’ embrace of the Stalin-era USSR seems comparable in practice if not quite in theory. That’s quite true about Frazier! Thanks for commenting!