Summary
Herfrid Minkler: Marx, Wagner, Nietzsche: The World at a Turning Point
Marx, Wagner, Nietzsche - these three thinkers deeply influenced the 19th and 20th centuries. As contemporaries, they treated each other differently: respected, rejected or ignored, but they shaped a time of great scientific diversity and social dynamism. Their antagonisms and contradictions take us to the heart of German development. Herfried Minkler follows these three fascinating characters and thus evokes an entire period. It shows the striking parallels in the lives of Marx and Wagner: participation in the revolution of 1848, flight, persecution and exile, many viruses, and then the creation of a significant work, the education of a large number of followers and the great responsibility for what follows made of their projects. Nietzsche is somewhat younger, and represents a philosophical event that, like Marx, will shape generations. All three destroyed the conventions of the civil world, they created something new - which would then become another, unexpected reality. Such a promising, rich German 19th century will pass into the era of extremes, political disasters. A stimulating book about three great thinkers, about the characteristics of the modern world and, not least, about the mentality of the Germans.
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