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". . . sed victa Catoni": The Defeated Cause of Revolutions
Ist Teil von
Social research, 2007-12, Vol.74 (4), p.1109-1126
Ort / Verlag
New York: Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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In reality, von Gentz is for Arendt representative of his generation, that 'of Schlegel and Humboldt, whom the unfortunate circumstances of German history had so effectively cut off from political reality that they were inclined to judge political matters merely from without, like spectators of a play' (Arendt, 1942:245). [...] when we reflect on the defeat of the partisans of the republic against Caesar's armies and on Cato's suicide, we experience some difficulty in admitting that the quotation means without ambivalence that the miracles of history provide to the spectator a disinterested pleasure.\n And with it, it is this hope for a transformation of the state, for a new form of government that would permit every member of the modern egalitarian society to become a 'participator' in public affairs, that was buried in the disasters of twentieth-century revolutions (Arendt, 1990:264-265).