“Anyone who replies to the signals of desolidarization with an appeal to the ‘self-confident nation’ or by calling for a return to the ‘normality’ of the reestablished national state, is using the devil to drive out Satan. For these unsolved global problems reveal precisely the limits of the nation-s…”— Jürgen Habermas, amazon.comTagged: Berlin Wall, National History, The Political, World War II
“Revolutions are insane, violent, idiotic, bestial. They are like war. They set fire to the Louvre and throw the naked bodies of princesses on the street. They kill, plunder, destroy. They are a man-made Biblical flood. Precisely therein consists their great beauty.”— Benito Mussolini, amazon.comTagged: Aestheticization of Violence, Madness, Revolution, Apocalypse, The Aestheticization of Violence
“Since the self is inherently a fiction, the only genuine end of self-transformation is aesthetic: to perpetually overlay the groundless self with 'style' for the sake of making it ever more attractive and interesting.”— Richard Wolin, amazon.comTagged: Groundless Ground