Category Archives: West

Spain as South – the Black Legend has a warm heart

By KDSMurray | September 22, 2009

‘Africa begins at the Pyrenees.’ Voltaire
"Whatever has black sounds has duende." Garcia Lorca
Spain seems an exception to civilised Europe. While the Enlightenment promoted the pursuit of reason based on natural order, Spain remained captive to a theatre of violence as it persecuted heretics and bulls. Is this a true [...]

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The German idea of South – high noon in the Black Forest

By admin | June 7, 2009

Spernere mundum, spernere te ipsum, spernere te sperni.
Scorn the world, scorn yourself, scorn being scorned.
St Filippo Neri quoted by Goethe
The Faustian quest
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is today the proud hero of enlightened Germany. Institutes in his name disseminate German culture around the world. And the core of this culture, Das Drama der Deutschen, is [...]

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West, then left

By admin | January 26, 2009

The History of the World travels from East to West, for Europe is absolutely the end of History, Asia the beginning. The History of the World has an East… for although the Earth forms a sphere, History performs no circle around it, but has on the contrary a determinate East, viz, Asia. Here rises the [...]

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