Luhmann vs. Art
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Philosophy
A profession
Work: “Nietzsche”Technique: Oil over dispersionYear: 2009Artist: Albert Lascaux “A profession is the backbone of life.” Source: Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, Volume I, “The […]
Berlin, Chapter 3 – “Drawing”
“Drawing is the root of everything.”— Van Gogh The reason why these drawings matter here is not that I want to present Helmut Schmidt or […]
Of the Flies of the Marketplace
Of the Flies of the Marketplace Thus Spoke Zarathustra Flee, my friend, into your solitude!I see you dazed by the noise of the great men […]
A Plea Against Conscription
And for a Voluntary, Highly Professional, Well-Paid, and Respected Professional Army Freedom vs. “Duty” – A Fundamental Contradiction The debate over a return to […]
The muse for sale
O my muse, child of the palaces! Will you, when winter hastens the ravens? Have a fire for your bare foot On a dreary snowy […]
To the Capo Carsten Linnemann
CDU wants to abolish citizens’ income and cut social welfare: “Where will they live then?” According to Linnemann, people would “already go to work” if […]
Sunflowers
An exhibition of van Gogh’s paintings is always an event in history,not in the history of painted objects,but in the history of history itself. For […]
Fortune telling
You can tell me what you want here, yes? But I don’t believe in fortune-telling. Like this. What I mean is that I don’t […]
Alena Buyx and the vaccination obligation
For me, the statements that Ms. Buyx made publicly in October 2021 during the media dissing of the soccer player Kimmich in front of an […]
Art as a necromancer
In addition, art performs the task of preserving, even of slightly re-coloring ideas that have probably died out and faded; when it solves this task, […]
A heart for Björn Höcke
Personally, for professional reasons, I have written myself a kind of life experience rulebook, i.e. a collection of (aphoristic) life advice – addressed directly to […]
The instincts of German art connoisseurs
Jan Fleischhauer @janfleischhauer I’ve always wondered why Caspar David Friedrich’s landscapes are shown without any warnings. The longer I look at his paintings, the more […]
When victory is a long time coming
When the battle has actually begun and victory is a long time coming, then men’s weapons become blunt and their zeal is dampened. When you […]
Russia, the USA and the European Meta-History
The French Revolution of 1789 – probably the most momentous historical event on the European continent – was certainly not lacking in values, and I […]