Hans Magnus Enzensberger - The Industrialization of the Mind

Описание: Hans Magnus Enzensberger - The Industrialization of the Mind *
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"No illusion is more stubbornly upheld than the sovereignty of
the mind. It is a good example of the impact of philosophy on
people who ignore it; for the idea that men can “make up their
minds” individually and by themselves is essentially derived from
the tenets of bourgeois philosophy: secondhand Descartes, run-
down Husserl, armchair idealism; and all it amounts to is a sort
of metaphysical do-it-yourself." *

"Born at Kaufbeuren, a small town in the Bavarian Allgau re-
gion, in 1929, Enzensberger grew up in Nuremberg, the atmo-
sphere of which, during the thirties and early forties, was a strange
and often stifling mixture of provincial remoteness and drowsiness
touched with faint recollections of a magnificent past, and the
deafening din and foaming bombast of Hitler’s party rallies and
bloody warmongering. Enzensberger lived through the musty idyll
and the pandemonium, as well as the devastating air raids that
soon began to sweep the city. Toward the end of the war, he was
drafted by the Nazis’ desperate conscription of shaky old men and
underfed teenagers, the “Volkssturm.” Later he dabbled awhile in
the black market and tried his hand at the theater; he also finished
high school. Having attended various German universities, as well
as the Sorbonne, where he studied literature, languages, and phi-
losophy, he earned his degree at Erlangen near Nuremberg. En-
zensberger’s dissertation analyzed the techniques of the Romantic
poet Clemens Brentano. It was eventually published. He graduated
with honors, receiving his doctorate summa cum laude at the age
of twenty-six.
Immediately after finishing his studies, he joined the Stuttgart Radio
and was assigned to the section dealing with essays; later,
he served as a reader for the Suhrkamp Verlag, which became his
publisher. In between, he was a visiting lecturer. Since 1961
Enzensberger has lived and worked as a freelance writer
and has gained spectacular success and great stature. In 1970 he
founded a publishing house of his own." **

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*Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
The Industrialization of the Mind. Trans. Author
Critical Essays
The German Library : Volume 98
Volkmar Sander, General Editor
Continuum Publishing Company, 1982

**Reinhold Grimm, 1982

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