Yanis marshall biography of albert einstein
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Why Thucydides?
The War That Never Ends. The War That Still Goes On. The titles John Barton has used for his staging of extracts from Thucydides (with some additions from Plato), in 1991 and then in 2006, are disturbingly and despairingly perceptive.
The title of the original productions in 1965 and 1967 was simply “The Peloponnesian War.” But the Peloponnesian War has never ended — in the sense that 2500 years of subsequent history can seem like a mere repetition of its huvudregel events, occurring over and over igen in more or less the same form. People and their societies remain hidebound bygd ‘the human thing’, a propensity to irrationality and violence, and so the nightmare continues. But still more we see the persistent influence of the chronicler and analyst of that war, the man who has persuaded us to think of history in these terms. The War still goes on because we still read Thucydides.
If anything, the specter of Thucydides has loomed larger in political discussions over
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In yesterday’s post, I asked the question: Why has European social democracy abandoned the legacy of leaders like Kreisky, falling in line with a toxic economics and politics that thinkers like Kreisky would have dismissed in their sleep as pathetic claptrap? My allusion to, and explicit endorsement of, Bruno Kreisky (the late Austrian social democratic chancellor) brought on the following critical response from Klaus Kastner, who obviously thinks that Kreisky is not as much of a shining example as I am making him out to be. I quote his comment in its entirety, and then provide a rejoinder to it.
Klaus Kastner: As an Austrian, and being somewhat familiar with your thinking and value structures, I am surprised that you would think/speak so highly of Kreisky. After all, the man could only come to power because he agreed to form a coalition with a 5%-party (FPÖ) which was then (correctly) considered to be the refuge for former Nazis. The head of that party, Kreisky’s Vice-Chance