Little else is known of him, but I am assume he is some sort of senior American political consultant, receiving large sums from Republican ‘dumb money’ with minimal effort, spending most of the day working out and chilling poolside.
 

Your French peasant had a better diet
 

proportionately more of a shot to continue his lineage instead of doomed to inceldom
 

and didn’t need to worry about his daughter getting violated by minorities.
 

It’s impossible for society to recognize inborn differences and designated roles without “unfair treatment.” A woman cannot lead where men lead. Negroids do not behave like Swedes.
 

these men would have never submitted to abstractions like “human rights,” or “equality,” or “the people”
 

He wants you to live well, you must first flourish individually, and then with a band of brothers, if the West is going to be reborn. Thus, work out, do what you love, make friends, cultivate your skills, amass power.
 

TAKABAP prophesies a time when “piratical bands and brotherhoods” will break free from the constraints of modern civilization and torch and plunder all these cities of excess, sub-par, miserable ‘life.’ There are great precedents for this: the Sea Peoples, the Germanic tribes . . .
 

What a waste of time. Unless you are TAKABAP, I see no reason for such a pointless article recommending a dumb book written by an anonymous internet gay.

That students today refuse rather than welcome challenges to their preconceptions (not theirs anyway, but those of the surrounding society which they have mindlessly accepted) is one of the surest signs that our culture is not merely in crisis, but terminally so.

I knew perfectly well who "E Stoiber" was, which is why I simply wrote "Stoiber". I even remember his "Laptop & Lederhosen" motto. What I did not know, and what you have now made very clear, was his little mental tick with percentages. I liked him, more than the present nonentity, but it was Franz Josef Strauss whom I really appreciated.

I like the old accusative - when did it cease to be used?

As you say, if Habermas described himself as "post-secular" than many surprises are possible in September. I hope you will keep us informed. On the other hand, a "post-secular" argumentation whcih avoids evil is not going to get very far.

The young of today, wholly formed by Leftist propaganda, indeed never look to themselves as the possible source of their shortcomings. The grievance society. If Habermas has added to this error, then shame upon him.

I wonder if the black preacher might have been Malcolm X? Leftist Europeans are far too easily impressed by black manifestations, and fill them with a significance they haven't got - or at least didn't, until the world went mad.

Humour. I shall look into those two, but wonder if, it being German humour, I will miss the point altogether.

I have a great love of that north-eastern corner of Bavaria which marches along the Czecg border. I think particularly, not so much of Konnersreuth, but of the nearby pilgrimage church of the Holy Trinity in Waldsassen. I was only there twice: once in 1980, and then again thirty years later. I had driven from Dresden, down through the Saxon Switzerland and on into Bohemia - my ultimate goal for the day was Bayreuth, for me another place of pilgrimage. But I stopped at Waldsassen on the way, spent a quarter of an hour in the church, and then a further forty-five over a beer in the stube some hundred yeards from the church - the only other building in sight, and I was the only customer. The beer was perfect, as it always is in Germany, a light wind bent the trees, and I soaked in a view of a Germany which please God will never change. After all, it hadn't yet.

these men would have never submitted to abstractions like “human rights,” or “equality,” or “the people”
 

He wants you to live well, you must first flourish individually, and then with a band of brothers, if the West is going to be reborn. Thus, work out, do what you love, make friends, cultivate your skills, amass power.
 

TAKABAP prophesies a time when “piratical bands and brotherhoods” will break free from the constraints of modern civilization and torch and plunder all these cities of excess, sub-par, miserable ‘life.’ There are great precedents for this: the Sea Peoples, the Germanic tribes . . .
 

What a waste of time. Unless you are TAKABAP, I see no reason for such a pointless article recommending a dumb book written by an anonymous internet gay.

Thanks for noticing again.
Lots of people don’t get what I’m writing, not only here at unz. Some like it though, here too. That’s nothing special, I guess.

Habermas might not remember me. I did spend some time with him in a seminar in Konstanz and later two days in a villa in Frankfurt with just about thirty or so others (practically all of them Professors from all over the world) – and I was the only one to publish articles about the event in the Swiss, German and Austrian press, but I thought, I would rather not send him personal birthday greetings. I’m soemimes too reluctant in such cases though, I have to admit. Those articles I sold as a freelancer in the early nineties: It was not easy to sell them, because lots of leftist journalists in Germany were firm believers in Postmodernism and told me, that they were dead sure, that Habermas’ was old hat by then and a figure of the past! – Ah ja, now that I think of this stuff: I once taught Habermas’ philosophy at a Geman university, too, while opposing postmodernism (his books helped me indeed to reach my goal). Many students were so hostile to this thought experience I offered to them, that I decided afterward to call it quits. I just did not like this shallow and pointless fights I found myself in with them at too many occasions.

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The Stoiber I mention is the well-known CSU politician. He once was Prime Minister of Bavaria and head of the CSU. He was (and still is) a full-throttle (=Vollgas) rhetoric and one of his shticks was his permanent reference to percentages (he had a huge supply of them in his head for all walks of life…) – my Stoiber-remark at the end of my German text above (comment No. 128) refers to Stoiber’s percentage tick via the title of Henscheid’s novel I quote, since this title is mentally the perfect contrary of Stoiber’s percentages in strengthening the pacifying beer- und Sechsämter driven alcohol-smoothed will to agree in everyday matters on almost anything that could usually be thought of as controversial. Sechs-Ämter or Sechs-Ämter-Tropfen being a herb Schnaps from Wunsiedel, the old capital of the Sechs Ämter (the six counties) – the mountainous Bavarian birth town of – the literary genius Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (aka: Jean Paul) near the Tschechien border!

A masterpiece, I’ve said it already, this Sechs-Ämter-Tropfen and beer soaked novel: Geht in Ordnung – sowieso – – genau – – – . Well and in it, Henscheid – walking in the beer-soaked footsteps of Jean Paul (who was what we’d now call an alcoholic – a heavy drinker), shows with real humor the existential uncertainties of life in the Bavarian hinterland of Dünklingen (think of Dinkelsbühl and Nördlingen) in the Seventies. Existential uncertainties which are rooted in all kinds of everyday confusions, not least and explicitly so in metaphysical ones. – – – The problems of Henscheid’s protagonists are not at all dependent on questions which can be described in mathematical terms or in percentages. But: The politician Edmund Stoiber in all his very provincial correctness and numbers-fixation fits in there in a paradoxical way: As the perfect other of Henscheid’s main characters, who take life very easy, but at the same time Stoiber, always trying very hard is – I’m following Nikolaus’ von Kues coincidentia oppositorum principle now – not only different from them, but also truly and perfectly so one of them at the same time.

Since there is room for transcendence and – loss (and death) in Henscheid’s novel, Edmund Stoiber in his efficiency- and percentage-mode is a strong opponent of the main subjects of the book, who are quite regular people (shop clerks, piano teachers, automobile salesman, a sales representative for church necessities, pensioners, a bunch of chemics students…). The whole thing appears as a circle within circles, the”middle point” of which is nowhere. – I melt Stoiber into the greater picture of Henscheid’s novel by applying a think-picture (Walter Benjamin) which was used by Seuse in his Vita – the one I just spoke about with the circle, which consists of circles, that lack the middle punct (Seuse) – – – that’s word by word a rhetorical figure of Seuse, I’m quite precise here – and have been in my German post you refer to as well. I have to admit, that this passage could be read quite easily as just some confusing word-salad. But it ain’t.

To proceed a bit: Henscheid – like Jean Paul – wrote political satires at times and in them he criticized not least Stoiber – one of Stoiber’s slogans then was: “Laptop und Lederhosen” -that’s how he wanted the Bavarians to be, in the near future: To still wear Lederhosen but to embrace the digital future nonetheless. – – – Well, the satirist and then social-democratic (=mildly leftist) political polemicist Eckhard Henscheid criticized Stoiber way too harsh in my eyes.

By quoting Stoiber to stress, how tight he fits into Henscheid’s prose I mention too Henscheid’s novella Maria Schnee about the well known and utterly beautiful Bavarian pilgrim’s church of the same name (=where Xaver Unsinn is held dear. And Unsinn (=nonsense!) is the human state of mind, not very far away from the idea, that we humans are “eitel arme Sünder, und wissen gar nicht viel” (Matthias Claudius): We humans are perfectly unimportant poor sinners, not knowing terribly much at all, says Claudius! – And that is the humbleness not only to be found in the novella “Maria Schnee”, but also in Henscheid's novel “Geht in Ordnung – sowieso – – genau – – – ” So, when I let Stoiber greet warmly novel and novella, I reject implicitly Henscheid’s cold critique of Stoiber in a move, that is closely related to the best writing of Eckhard Henscheid. I think, that deep down, a) Stoiber is closer to the universe in Henscheid’s novel than the polemicist Henscheid at times insinuated or claimed and that b) Stoibers percentage-fixation is, in all its defenseless clarity as a fixation of his, clearly visible to and even laughed about by the public:There are numerous popular YouTube-clips of Stoiber the hapless orator, a fact that makes him even more human – – – and Christian, even: – A circle within circles, a mystical thought-picture, I told you so. And seen through this circling and swirling and swinging thought-picture of Seuse, Stoiber is rather showing one of his wounded sides in his number-fixation and therefore is rightfully added even because of his number-fixation to Henscheid’s group of overwhelmingly human sufferers in his novel “Geht in Ordnung – sowieso – – genau – – – “. I’d rather understand Stoiber as just one more example which proves, that our worldly ways suffer from imperfections, and should not be dismissed as dumb or inhuman because of such weaknesses. (And in understanding the existential (or metaphysical = religious) dignity of our human imperfection, we see a trace of God in our world, I’d hold – so here you have one reoccurring motif in my little text, which you mentioned in his post of yours right away to my great pleasure: That God is not to be looked after or searched for only on the big scale, but on the small scale of existential humbleness as well (that’s literally Meister Eckhart – the teacher of Heinrich Seuse, with Seuse being my all-time favorite writer). One sound reason for Meister Eckhart’s claim to look for the traces of God in humble everyday surroundings like cow stables is, that God for sure (=necessarily) transcends – I’d even hold: All of our earthly value systems – and this implies not least our distinction of: Big = good and small = unimportant.
There’s still a tad more to the Stoiber-Henscheid connection, but I hope, that what I wrote so far has already shown, how deep this stuff – at least in my view – does – – actually reach).

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“Goethen” is the old accusative of Goethe – it adds gravitas and makes the name sound fuller and rounder – more rooted. Therefore no: No wordplay here along the line of Goethe and God.

So, big and little are poles of thinking. They make the thinker. And they imply a religious dimension. That is one line of thoughts, that runs through my German text above.

And Habermas loves to play with these things. I’m not sure, whether this Habermasian attitude goes directly back to Occam, but I think, that it indirectly does go back to him (or stem from him) at the very least since Occam was an important middle man who handed over the tradition of concise Latin writing, not least by cherishing Thomas of Aquinas. And here this Habermas-Occam-picture comes with a bit more detail: Habermas changed his way of thinking in a very important way, but all he did verbally was, that he said, that he is a postsecular thinker now. – And that’s why lots of people did not get at all, that his thinking had changed in a major way. Like it might have been the case with Thierry Chervel, founder and owner of the small but profitable leftwing online-platform Perlentaucher, they thought that the step from secular thinking to post-secular thinking was small, because the way in which Habermas pinned it down in his books was so – – humble, by adding just one little Latin syllable.

And Habermas likes this kind of confusion, that does not spring from unclear language, but from a disregard of humble clarity. And clear and humble he was, no doubt about that: There is a difference between the words secular and postsecular, and he who does not pay attention to language and precision, will be lost as soon as he enters the realm of philosophy, because – philosophy is language (and precision) in action, if it is anything at all. – – –

One reason why it is not only humble but also ironic, that he calls his new thinking postsecular is, that Habermas was the foremost and most profound critic of postmodernism.
Zizek debated Peterson not least about religion, Zizek figuring as old school postmodern atheist. Hegel understood, that the two poles of rationality on the one side and (Christian) tradition on the other are conflicting – and that the tensions, that this conflict produces, hurt. The Entzweiung (=two-partition) of the modern mind, Hegel writes about, again and again, is what causes the pain in the modern soul. Dr. Freud conceded that in his book Civilization and its Discontents, which is quite Hegelian, and Zizek sees this point too and – turns it against Marx in claiming, that Marx did not understand, that it is no use, to try to get rid of this basic modern conflict by using (revolutionary) force and trying thus to physically eradicate all bourgois (and religious) power. You can’t physically eradicate the human longing for Religion, because this longing is no physical thing – it’s a mental thing. Hegel got this one perfectly right: The mental side of the human longing for Religion. In opposing Marx with Hegel, Zizek does the world a favor, because he confronts leftists with the most terrible mistake of Marx’ attack on religion: That the left is entitled to fight essentially christian bourgeois societies using physical force against the bourgeois culture, which he claimed had to be destroyed. Say what you will about Zizek: Here he is right, and even brave because this stand he took here in the Peterson debate as in numerous others before brought him lots of conflicts and troubles with the worldwide universal left.

Goethe’s advantage over Schiller made Habermas more prone to cherish Schiller than Goethe: And that advantage is, that Goethe understood perfectly well, that the devil (or the evil, or the destructive character (Fromm)) are an inescapable part of our earthly strivings. – That’s the core thought of my musings about the Schiller- Goethe-Habermas triangle in my German text above.
I doubt, that Habermas should have overcome this big shortcoming of his thinking in “Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie” – to avoid the concept of the devil and or evil. In short: I think that’s a big omission, the Habermasian blind spot if ever there was one. It has to do with psychodynamics: If you try to avoid the (d)evil as part of our earthly existence, you’re in for an uphill battle you can’t win – you’ll soon see windmills, where there are none, and castles, where there are windmills…Therefore, I’d expect not only Goethe’s Faust, but Miguel Cervantes’ Don Quichotte too to be constantly underexposed in Habermas upcoming biggie “Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie”.

As I said: If you are a thinker, this underexposure of evil comes at a cost: The way, in which this cost materializes in your writing might differ. The way, in which it materializes in Habermas’ writing so far is that he suppresses even thoughts, that don’t fit into his over-optimistic picture of the world. And he does so, even though he writes at great lengths (for hundreds of pages) about the importance of unsuppressed thoughts and free speech. (I know, these kinds of self-contradictions are old stuff – “sie predigten öffentlich Wasser/ und tranken heimlich Wein…” Heinrich Heine, Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen (Germany. A Winter-Fairy-Tale: They preached publicly to drink water/ And secretly they drank nothing but wine).

One big mishap of our modern consciousness and therefore to be found in the center of our recent mentality is: To look for the faults elsewhere, not in yourself. I tend to think, that secularization does not properly work not least, because it produces a mindset, which is free of individual guilt (thus the knack for coddling of the secular zeitgeist of the regressive left. Odo Marquard once remarked that this is a trademark of the Frankfurt School: To blame the others (=Capitalism, Imperialism, Nationalism, Authorities) for the existential shortcomings – for the imperfectness of the world even, lately: For bad weather….). That’s the best thought of Peterson I think: That modern secularists tend to blame the circumstances and the others habitually and refuse to think about their own faults at the same time. This genuinely Frankfurt School mindset is one, which works as a pirate act: It stole the utterly Christian idea of purity (=holiness, transcendence) and promised to reinstall it in a secular world of enlightenment (cf. Jonathan Franzens great novel Purity).

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That I refer to Steve Sailer’s impressive and insightful, almost perfect book about Barrack Obama and via Steve Sailer’s gem to Obama’s “spiritual leader” and preacher Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. is caused by a story, Habermas told in one of his “small” books with political essays: That he had once been utterly impressed and – quieted down even: That he thought, impressed by the sermon of the leftist black US-American preacher in New York City (if I remember right) he was, Habermas wrote, so impressed, by what the preacher had said, and by the impressive way, in which he had been talking, that Habermas thought whatever he might add would not improve the power of these words in this very situation. – He had found his master, in a leftist emancipative context. I think, that this very experience might have nourished his doubts about the secular mindset, and is thus maybe one of the strong biographical reasons for the very existence of those doubts of his about secularism. – Now, think again about the for us (!) inexplicable ways of the Lord – that he might have allowed an utterly corrupt figure to help the utterly serious Jürgen Habermas to lose his confidence in the secular modern world as the only reasonable path of societal evolution! – If this was the Muppets-show (I know that it ain’t!), Statler and Waldorf would call out – – asking for applause! applause! – – only interrupted by bursts of laughter, – wouldn’t they?

Ok, and this story of the possible origin of Dr. Habermas’ farewell to secularism reminded me a lot of Obama’s Porsche driving ex-pastor Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. – This is just an assumption of mine, but not necessarily a wrong one, I’d hold: It could well have been the case, that a figure like pastor Wright strengthened or even induced the idea in Habermas, that his secular philosophical world is incomplete. – There’s a lot more to this Wright-complex too, I’ll only add one tiny bit of information to it: Steve Sailer writes, that he actually likes the pompous name of this pastor quite a bit – and Steve Sailer makes it quite clear, that he thinks of this name in all his pompous evidence as something – funny even, something that makes him literally laugh – or smile, at least, again and again – and not least, I might add, because this pompous and I’m sure: Carefully crafted (!) name is so telling.

coda

The close relation between Steve Sailer here and Jean Paul and Eckhard Henscheid there is the love of all three men of letters of – – – irony and humor. Heinz-Dieter Weber taught me quite a few things about Hegel and Goethe and he worked with Wolfgang Preisendanz and Odo Marquart, and Preisendanz and Marquart especially held humor dear as a literary scientist (Preisendanz) and philosopher (Marquard) respectively – they all worked in the Konstanz-project Poetic und Hermeneutic, one of the productive and insightful efforts in the German post-war humanities, which touched me with its wisdom and insights too, – if maybe only lightly so, but touch me it did nonetheless.

Vermischte Prospekte in Jürgen Habermas' "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie" hinein, gesehen mit den Augen des vergnügten Jean-Paulischen Schulmeisterleins Maria Wutz, gegeben drei/vier Tage vor Jürgen Habermas' 90. Geburtstag am 19. 6. und drei Monate vor Erscheinen des o. a. Habermasischen Zweibänders über die Co-Evolution von Christentum und Europäischer Philosophie - vom Römischen Kaiserreich bis heute

Wenn es quakt wie eine Ente, läuft wie eine Ente und aussieht wie eine Ente, dann ist es eine Ente

Der Kommentator Ewald_der_Etrusker, als er wieder einmal zu Felde zog

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Die kenntnisreiche und aufrichtige Argumentation ist der vernünftige Kern unserer Kultur. Und den, so schließt der gute Doktor Habermas gern seine Abhandlungen, haben Barbaren auf dem Kieker, verstehen Sie, Ewald_der_Etrusker?

Deshalb soll man, wie Thomas von Aquin in "De Ente et Essentia" in aller Klarheit bereits dargelegt hat - mit immerhin onomatopoetischem Bezug auf Sie und Ihre Wissenschafts-Enten Metaphorik, und logischem Bezug darüber hinaus zu Aristoteles immerhin. Also deshalb, so meine ich grad' wie Thomas, soll man unbedingt die Vernunft hochhalten; denn nur so ist zu verhindern, dass, wie er in dem angeführten Frühwerk von - ich hab' nachgeguckt, 1255, - ganz richtig schlussfolgert: Also Thomas sagt da kurz gefasst, man soll gut argumentieren, weil aus kleinen Fehlern leicht mal große werden.

(Hehe - das ist bereits eine Vorausschau auf des schaffigen Starnberger Doktors nächstes zweibändiges Großbuch von wie man beim Suhrkap-Verlag liest exakt 1700 Seiten für, wie der Verlag weiter schreibt, "circa" 98 Euro. Erhältlich im gut sortierten Buchhandel ab 30. September 2019).

Ich gib' fürderhin meinen tentativen Voraus-Einblick in Habermas' "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie" betitelten Doppelbänder auf den Spuren des herzallerliebsten Schulmeisterleins Maria Wutz aus Jean Pauls Idylle über das gottgefällige Auenthal und denke an den späten, postsäkularen "großen Jürgen Habermas", so Th.Chervel im Online-Magzin Perlentaucher. Der freilich, also der Thierry Chervel vom Perlentaucher, ist selber gar nicht postsäkular, sondern als weiter streng atheistisch/säkular und insofern der genuinen Habermasischen Denkbewegung ein wenig abhold, in den letzten Jahren. Loben tat er ihn dennoch, vielleicht hat er nicht richtig gecheckt, was da abgeganen war, denktechnisch, sowas kann in unserer schnellebigen Zeit leicht einmal passieren, wie ich finde, vielleicht ist das alles aber auch ganz anders.

Nu.

Ich kucke indessen frühlingshaft heiter gestimmt ausdrücklich m i t Wutzens erquickten Äuglein, da dieser unverdrossen frohgemute arme Schulmann alle seine Lieblingsbücher als absoluter Enthusiast u n d Habenichts s e l b e r schrieb - : - Und daher spicke ich durch Wutzens vom rauen Weltenlauf ungetrübte Wunderlinsen in dieses uns bevorstehende wuchtige, irgendwie nach Goethens Superintendenten Johann Gottlieb Herders "Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit" betitelten Werks Habermas', das ebend etwas kürzer und etwas verdreht "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie" heißt; obwohl es viel viel länger ist. Eine captatio benvolentiae mit Blick auf die Leserinnen und Leser all', vermutlich. Irgendwie ein Trost: Mag' das Buch auch noch so doppelbändig und doppeldick sein, so ist es immerhin verhältnismässig schlank und sogar ein wenig lustig verdreht betitelt- also gilt es bald einmal: Frischauf und ungesäumt hindurch, oh Wissensdurstige & Wissensdurstige all'. Ok - ich blicke in diese Giga-Blattsammlung jetzt schon - und gratis obendrein im Geiste Wutz', - und etwan gleich wie Wutz auf der Grundlage eines auf die Buchmesse hinzielenden Verlagsprospektes "grad' au no" (Moser). Coincidentia Tripartita Constantiae.

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Im übrigen ist es keineswegs ausgemacht, dass meine Prophezeiung bezüglich der prominenten Rolle des Thomas für unser abendländisches Denken und implizit oder wer weiß sogar explízit von des Thomas hochgelahrten und jedenfalls top-ehrgeizigen kleinen Frühwerks "De Ente et Essentia" "in Tat und Wahrheit" (A. Maucher) überhaupt zutrifft. Obwohl - unwahrscheinlich ist das nicht, dass in meinen Überlegungen einiges vom wirklichen Denken des Marburgischen Doktors wie auch Doktors honoris causa int. mult. - tatsächlich - - schon drin-stickt, denn die Welt "stickt" (Goethe) allgemein "voller Merkwürdigkeiten". - - - Nun, "wir werden", mit den Worten Hannes Waders fast schon zu schließen - hoffentlich! - diesen Herbst noch "sehn", wie es um diese Dinge steht - gern auch mit Blick auf "Häuptling Seattle" (Hannes Wader), oder z. B. auf den spirituellen reformierten ehemaligen Mentor und ersten geistlichen Anleiter des weiland Chicagoer Senators Barrack Obama.

Die Rede ist von keinem geringeren als dem Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., also dem Kurator des im "Hyatt Regency Hotel" daselbst verliehenen Chicagoer "Trumpeter-Magazine-Awards". Der ging an Louis Farrakhan ("The Nation of Islam") am zweiten November 2007, wie Steve Sailer so treulich verzeichnet in seiner in der Tat einlässlichen und einsichtsreichen Obama-Deutung "AMERICA'S HALF-BLOOD PRINCE", auf den Spuren von Obamas Buch über, so Obama - "Rasse und Erbschaft". - ! - Ein spannender möglicher Subplot von Dr. Jürgens neuem Buch, wie mir scheint, in dem ein Prototyp des korrupten Schwazen christlichen Charismatikers und lebenslustigen Predigers der US Mega-Kirchen ja sowenig fehlen sollte, wie die Vertreter des politisch-radikalislamischen Flügels unserer Multikulturalität. So einer aber, Zufälle gibts!, war in der Tat der andere von des aufstrebenden linken Senators Barrack Obama Augensternen, nämlich der vogelwilde Schreiber und Agitator Louis Farrakhan, den man islamischerseits dann leider ermordete. Eine furchtbare Geschichte.

Das ist hier etwas gedrängt - mehr wie gesagt in Steve Sailers konziser Deutung von Barrack Obamas autobiographischem Buch "Dreams from my Father - A Story of Race and Inheritance". Ein Buch, das Sailer übrigens schrieb, bevor Obama Präsident wurde. Der Obama-Titel richtig verdeutscht lautet: "Träume von meinem Vater - Eine Geschichte über Rasse und Erbschaft". Der Titel des Obama-Buches im Deutschen Buchhandel aber lautete: "Ein Amerikanischer Traum - Die Geschichte meiner Familie".
Tcha, liebe Deutsche Leser, man will euch schonen, also übersetzte man euch nicht, was Obama schrieb, sondern erfand etwas Sanftes drum herum.

"Sehn" werden wir jedenfalls, wie es sich mit alldem in "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie", ahhh - wie sich das alles in diesem zwieschlächtigen Werk dann materialiter im Geiste Jean Pauls eventuell doppelgesichtig und einfältig zugleich wie Vult und Valt aus dem Erbschafts(!)- und Zwillings- und Abstammungs(!)roman "Flegeljahre" - - prismatisch bricht oder blutmäßig im Sinne Barrack Obamas wie zugleich in der Tradition der Merseburger Zaubersprüche - - einrenkt.

Den - also diesen Zauberspruch über die "blut renki" vermute ich nicht unter Habermas' inskünftigen Trouvaillen, da der Zauberspruch in vorchristliche Urzeiten verweist, in denen vemutlich Emile Durkheim eher zuhause ist, als eben der weltberühmte Starnberger Stubengelehrte.

Die menschlichen Ur-Anfänge hat Habermas zudem im verlgeichsweise schlanken Zweibänder "Die Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns" bereits abgearbeitet. Es wäre also überraschend, wenn er im neuen Buch dahin zurückkehrte.

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Spannend aber, ob der Hegel-mäßigen modernen Dialektik, wie Slavoj Zizek und - Dieter Weber selig - sie so geistreich hin- und herzuwenden wussten, spannend ist's zu sehen, wie das alles, wie also dieser Habermasisch-Thomistisch-Hegelische Existential- und Transzendental-Zauber nicht zuletzt der modernen Großwunde der hegelischen Entzweiung entggenwirkt. -
- Entzweiung meint bei Hegeln die unseres eigenen Kopf- und Buseninhalts, - ob diese unser Zeitalter und unseren Zeitgeist prägenden und plagenden, modernen Entzweiungen wer weiß durch Habermas' Denkanstrengungen sogar therapeutisch-kurativ traktiert werden im neuen Buch? Das wäre im Sinne des frankfurterischen gesellschaftsreformerischen kritischen Theoretikers Rainer Frost - im Sinne aber vor allen anderen hier des Kanadischen Klinischen Psychologen und Vortragsreisenden und weltweiten Religionsdeuters Jordan B. Peterson.

Jordan B. Peterson sagt nämlich, dass die metaphysisch obdachlosen modernen Neurotiker laut seiner Kenntnisse der klinischen Literatur tatsächlich und messbar dünnhäutiger und wehrloser reagierten auf die unvermeidlichen Belastungen des Lebens als die Gläubigen oder sonstwie metaphysisch Gebildeten und Einsichtsbereiten! - Das ist einer der groß-Aspekte der derzeitigen westlichen Mentalitätsentwicklung, wie er bezeugt und bedacht wurde von Goethe bereits, von Hegel, Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche und bald einmal von Sigmund Freud und - dieser Denker ist für den einlässlichen und kenntnisreichen Bibel-DeuterJordan Peterson der klare Favorit - Carl Jung.

Die moderne, oder lt. Jacques Lacan usw. die postmoderne Seelenpein produziert tatsächlich massenhaftes psychisches Leiden durch ihre insgesamt regressive Ausrichtung unserer Triebe/ unserer Strebungen, unseres Begehrens und unserer Begierden, während, ich bin immer noch bei Dr. Peterson, der metaphysisch und/oder kirchlich eingebundene Mensch nachweislich (!) besser mit den, so Peterson, unvermeidlichen existentiellen Gefährdungen hinieden zurecht komme.

Dies könnte einer der Gründe für eine christliche Wiedererstarkung darstellen: Dass hier Demut, Leidens- und Differenzierungsbereitschaft, Chaos und Ordnung, Heil und Frohsinn alle ihren Platz haben, während im säkularen Kontext unserer Universitäten beispielsweise, sich zunehmend weltfernes Heulen und Zähneklappern nach vorne drängt, gerne unterstützt von halb-hippen Hip-Pop-Priestern etwelcher christlicher Konfessionen.

Also werden nun beweihräuchert und in den pevertierten Tabernakel unserer lädierten Öffentlichkeit gestellt: Micro-Aggressions, Schutzräume, Trigger-Warnungen, die Verweigerung der rationalen Debatte überhaupt als die vielleicht größte unserer säkularen Plagen, kurzum: Die Verknuddelung des westlichen Geistes, wie ich von Jonathan Haidt und Greg Lukianoff inspiriert, nun doch zusammenfassend kritisieren möchte.

IV

Ob das alles am Ende sogar in eine von Hein-arich (M R-R) Heine inspirierte übermütige greise Habermas-Volte mündet, die nicht nur Hobbes und Schopenhauer und Wilhelm Busch und Tod und Teufel (Martin Heidegger) in abgründiger Spannung hält, sondern auch die anderen Habermasischen Ur-Gegenspieler Eckhard Henscheid und Peter Sloterdijk, Dieter Henrich, Odo Marquart und - Carl Schmitt? -
- Hoffentlich jedenfalls mit mehr, und bitte nicht mit weniger Habermasischen Jean-Paulismen, als ich sie hier probehalber bereits aufführte! -

- "Aja", bald wissen alle Interessierten um die Faktizität dieser neuerlichen Groß-Denk-Causa, und können dann auch deren Geltung näher bestimmen, die immerhin die Zeitungswelt in Deutschland und das Netz weltweit bereits "dursofet heti" (nochmal Heinrich Seuse). - Durchzogen also mit den, dem bald erscheinenden Großwerk - wie imaginäre Bugwellen - im erwartungsfoh aufgewühlten Ozean unserer vorläufigen Kenntnislosigkeit - äh - - - Bugwellen sagt' ich, die genuin utopische Wasserzeichen oder halt "Spuren" (Bloch) vor unserem inneren Auge entstehen lassen. Welche imaginären Spuren wir zugleich mit dem guten und - gleich Habermas, wie mir scheint - unübertrefflichen Heinrich Seuse und mit Wutz sowieso immer fester in den Blick nehmen können. Das ist im Sinne des Utopikers Bloch und des Eudämonisten Maria Wutz ganz besonders, grad' weil es diese Spuren noch kaum gibt. Im Geiste Wutzens und Chestertons sowieso geht solche detektivische Spurenlese aber, so ich "neiswi" (Seuse) Schwein habe, ganz bestimm gut aus! Denn für den vergnügten Wutz - gäbe es das alles im kreglen "hirni" (Seuse) schon, und würde deshalb - sowieso - - genau - - - zu "einhundert Prr..zent!" (E. Stoiber) in Ordnung gehen!*** Des, liebe Leser, seid gewiss! Ente gut und wie in Eckhard Henscheids Jean Paul ganz verpflichtetem Idyll "Maria Schnee"*** über die oberanmutige Bayerische Wallfahrtskirche Maria Schnee in Legau: Sogar mehrere "Entn, Entn!" gut. - Also bis dahin alles perfekt soweit, einschließlich des Epitaphs für ausgerechnet Xaver Unsinn (gest. 1774) in der Wallfahrtskirche Maria Schnee. Prästabilierte Harmonie innerweltlicher Tanszendenz, erfüllt von den Logos-Strahlen eines utopischen Rücklichts, das von einem wirklichen Frontscheinwerfer gar nicht mehr zu unterscheiden wäre, wg. Coincidentia Oppositorum (ich rechne ganz fest mit des Cusaners Erscheinen in Habermas' doppelleibigen Bücherkosmos! Leibniz wird ebenfalls im dicken Buch zu finden sein, der Xaver Unsinn unterm Torbogen von Maria Schnee vielleicht dann wieder eher nicht. Leider. Aber kann man nix machen. Hier ist etwelche Einfalt gefragt! Und Humor, und Demut dazu.

Also, was fehlen wird, wird eventuell der Tyffel sin, der uns nun zum Schluss noch plagen will! Der ist bei Habermas unbehaust, weil der unserem prospektiven Starnbergischen "Jubelsenior" (Jean Paul) - - - nicht und nicht und gar nicht liegt. Wesensmässig nicht liegt - wie ihm (vielleicht deshalb?) auch Goethen nicht liegt - ganz anders als der - wesensmässig irgendwie heller gestimmte und teufelsfernere - und von Habermas besonders in seinem grundgelehrten und krtitischen, gewitzten "Philosophischen Diskurs der Moderne" hochgehaltenen Friedrich Schiller. Also: Von Goethen (und Papst Benedikt) dürfte eher im Hinblick auf den Islam die Rede sein, in "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie". Und von Goethen kaum im Hinblick auf Mephisto, wie ich meine. - Wenn doch, wäre das freilich eine allzeit willkommene "Iiiiberraschung" (Pavel Janda, der pan-europäische Heros der Geist- und Gliedrenke).
Item: "Alles gut!", wie heute die hochgestimmten Mütter, Fachverkäuferinnen und Therapeutinnen so gerne freudig ausrufen. Und diesem oft gehörten frohen Ruf will ich mich auch gar nicht verschließen, denn hier treffen sich Wutz, Goethe und Hegel, der Jean Paul mit Gusto promovierte, traut vereint: Eine tragfähige Grundlage aller weiteren Erörterungen, ein wahres Fundment für Dr. Habermas' neuerliche gedankliche Aufschwünge, nicht zuletzt! Item: Finis opusculum, laus deo!

"Maria Schnee" and "Geht in Ordnung - sowieso - - genau - - - " are two brilliant works of fiction (a novella and a novel) by Eckhard Henscheid

My remarks about "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie" are some sort of an abbreviated version of a little text of mine, which - now, nobody understands this stuff from here on unz, but you could well be an exception, so I'll give it a try: Since I know quite a lot about Habermas' work, the little hint at the Suhrkamp-webside about the upcoming book with some inspired me, to indeed write a little review in advance - - - in the footsteps of Jean Pauls Schulmeisterlein Wutz, who, as you know, but - - -I think its fair to assume, you're the only one around here, who knows not only Jean Paul but also Wutz: And therefor knows about Wutz' love of books and how he satisfied his enthusiasm about books, even though he was so poor, that he could not afford to buy a single one: Therefor, he studied the advertisements of the book trade fair and then wrote the books all by himself (just in case, sombeody else reads here, too).

Well, in Wutz' footsteps I am I think the first worldwide, hehe, who did write a little review in advance of Habermas tome. As a matter of fact, since I have written a bit here about the - - - co-evolution of Christian thinking and European philosophy/enlightenment thinking, I myself have for quite some time been walking the trail, in which Habermas now proceeds big (BIG) scale.

I'll send you my German remarks about Habermas' new book seen from the perspective of Jean Paul and - as pars pro toto - the young Thomas von Aquin later, since my wife has morning tea ready.
(Thanks for noticing!)

i guess i don't understand why it's so hard to explain.

selling a BS lie about planet destroying global warming helps leftists. talking about real genetic differences between humans around the world doesn't help leftists.

leftists control all dialogue. so which one is blathered about all day, and which one is silenced?

seems pretty simple to me.

My remarks about "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie" are some sort of an abbreviated version of a little text of mine, which - now, nobody understands this stuff from here on unz, but you could well be an exception, so I'll give it a try: Since I know quite a lot about Habermas' work, the little hint at the Suhrkamp-webside about the upcoming book with some inspired me, to indeed write a little review in advance - - - in the footsteps of Jean Pauls Schulmeisterlein Wutz, who, as you know, but - - -I think its fair to assume, you're the only one around here, who knows not only Jean Paul but also Wutz: And therefor knows about Wutz' love of books and how he satisfied his enthusiasm about books, even though he was so poor, that he could not afford to buy a single one: Therefor, he studied the advertisements of the book trade fair and then wrote the books all by himself (just in case, sombeody else reads here, too).

Well, in Wutz' footsteps I am I think the first worldwide, hehe, who did write a little review in advance of Habermas tome. As a matter of fact, since I have written a bit here about the - - - co-evolution of Christian thinking and European philosophy/enlightenment thinking, I myself have for quite some time been walking the trail, in which Habermas now proceeds big (BIG) scale.

I'll send you my German remarks about Habermas' new book seen from the perspective of Jean Paul and - as pars pro toto - the young Thomas von Aquin later, since my wife has morning tea ready.
(Thanks for noticing!)

At 72, I'm now a committed racist - xenophobe and part time anti semite, but Ashkanazi's make me just as crazy - so it's not just Muslims and Israeli's ... it's everybody but White Middle America.

I was a corn fed kid, wandering the fields to friends houses after school in the 50's and early 60's.

You paid after you pumped, left the house unlocked, keys in the ignition outside .... white people, rich or poor didn't steal from each other. Never heard of pedophilia or incest ... I was safe anywhere.

Nobody will convince me that the change in my world hasn't been racial. Black and brown people just don't behave like the rest of us....

Catholic homosexuals as well.... but then, my family was not Catholic or religious.

I am going to jump on this book, .... it's lonely out here.... KNOWING the planet has gone crazy, and there are so few sane voices.

One note, however - I blame lesbians in media and publishing for brainwashing the females around the world.... that agenda is toxic toward men, traditional beauty, and heterosexual union.

Women have been exploited, not by men, but by the homosexual armies that march through our culture, slashing, burning and destroying all that is good for families and children.

Damn them to hell..... but yet.... how many copies of 50 Shades of Gray were sold?

TO WOMEN? Millions and millions and millions of women still yearn for strong, able men who are also a bit dangerous...

It's the Story of O, The Secretary, ... women want to be dominated, but only by strong, capable men.

The kind we used to see on the covers of Romance Novels..... it's still in our DNA.... but the demons among us are destroying our men, and brainwashing the ladies.

I am a grand mother... and will compare passport stamps with anyone on this board. I understand universals.... at least from a white entrepreneur with an IQ of 128...

Ah, yes, but all human conceptualization and numbering depends upon the fiction of equality.

We number things, sheep in a fold for instance, 1,2,3,4,5 and so on as though they were each 1=1=1=1=1 alike even though they are individuals and, of course, different. Same with any concept. We group things under a title as though they were, to all intents and purposes, identical. A 7 car pileup.

And this makes for all sorts of confusion in thinking. Almost every logical error boils down to Hasty Generalization, i.e. lumping something in a category into which it doesn't truly belong. Confusion in Politics too. And economics.

One of the first scripts which we can decipher is Mycenaean Linear B. It consists of palace records of produce and farm animals which may have been deposited for safekeeping at the Temple/Castle by outlying farmers. Imagine that you are one such farmer and that you are conscientious and care for your animals. They are healthy and fat. You bring your surplus to the Central Administration Authority for safe keeping and the scribes duly record your share as 12 sheep, 250 gallons of olive oil etc. Now your neighbor is not nearly so conscientious as you. In fact, he's downright lazy and a drunkard to boot. His sheep are thin and spindly. His olive oil slightly rancid, but he too brought in 12 sheep and 250 gallons of oil.

Later, as the year progresses, some of the the bounty is traded abroad and some doled out at feasts. During emergencies, some is allotted to each family. But when it's doled out, it is mixed so your neighbor eats some of yours and you some of his. He profits from your diligence. After having been traded the same amount is credited to both your accounts at the Palace.

But, you think to yourself, "All sheep and olive oil are not equal." The numbers 12 and 250 are hasty generalizations. You ask yourself, "Why should my freeloading neighbor enjoy the bounty of my sweat and toil?"

So, numbering immediately brings in its wake questions of equality, fairness and justice. And no matter how fine grained we try to categorize the things around us, we will always run into this problem. This is exactly what Xeno's paradoxes were trying to illustrate. No method of intellectual division can ever add up to One. There is always an indivisible remainder that stands unique. Having nothing in common with anything else, it cannot be categorized. Hence, it literally cannot be thought. Or rather, its essence cannot be apprehended by thinking. It is the Parmenidean One. Or God, as you call it.

Little else is known of him, but I am assume he is some sort of senior American political consultant, receiving large sums from Republican ‘dumb money’ with minimal effort, spending most of the day working out and chilling poolside.
 

these men would have never submitted to abstractions like “human rights,” or “equality,” or “the people”
 

He wants you to live well, you must first flourish individually, and then with a band of brothers, if the West is going to be reborn. Thus, work out, do what you love, make friends, cultivate your skills, amass power.
 

TAKABAP prophesies a time when “piratical bands and brotherhoods” will break free from the constraints of modern civilization and torch and plunder all these cities of excess, sub-par, miserable ‘life.’ There are great precedents for this: the Sea Peoples, the Germanic tribes . . .
 

What a waste of time. Unless you are TAKABAP, I see no reason for such a pointless article recommending a dumb book written by an anonymous internet gay.

At 72, I'm now a committed racist - xenophobe and part time anti semite, but Ashkanazi's make me just as crazy - so it's not just Muslims and Israeli's ... it's everybody but White Middle America.

I was a corn fed kid, wandering the fields to friends houses after school in the 50's and early 60's.

You paid after you pumped, left the house unlocked, keys in the ignition outside .... white people, rich or poor didn't steal from each other. Never heard of pedophilia or incest ... I was safe anywhere.

Nobody will convince me that the change in my world hasn't been racial. Black and brown people just don't behave like the rest of us....

Catholic homosexuals as well.... but then, my family was not Catholic or religious.

I am going to jump on this book, .... it's lonely out here.... KNOWING the planet has gone crazy, and there are so few sane voices.

One note, however - I blame lesbians in media and publishing for brainwashing the females around the world.... that agenda is toxic toward men, traditional beauty, and heterosexual union.

Women have been exploited, not by men, but by the homosexual armies that march through our culture, slashing, burning and destroying all that is good for families and children.

Damn them to hell..... but yet.... how many copies of 50 Shades of Gray were sold?

TO WOMEN? Millions and millions and millions of women still yearn for strong, able men who are also a bit dangerous...

It's the Story of O, The Secretary, ... women want to be dominated, but only by strong, capable men.

The kind we used to see on the covers of Romance Novels..... it's still in our DNA.... but the demons among us are destroying our men, and brainwashing the ladies.

I am a grand mother... and will compare passport stamps with anyone on this board. I understand universals.... at least from a white entrepreneur with an IQ of 128...

Little else is known of him, but I am assume he is some sort of senior American political consultant, receiving large sums from Republican ‘dumb money’ with minimal effort, spending most of the day working out and chilling poolside.
 

these men would have never submitted to abstractions like “human rights,” or “equality,” or “the people”
 

He wants you to live well, you must first flourish individually, and then with a band of brothers, if the West is going to be reborn. Thus, work out, do what you love, make friends, cultivate your skills, amass power.
 

TAKABAP prophesies a time when “piratical bands and brotherhoods” will break free from the constraints of modern civilization and torch and plunder all these cities of excess, sub-par, miserable ‘life.’ There are great precedents for this: the Sea Peoples, the Germanic tribes . . .
 

What a waste of time. Unless you are TAKABAP, I see no reason for such a pointless article recommending a dumb book written by an anonymous internet gay.