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It only takes reading half of Swann's Way to see that Proust's talent was a very narrow kind and that his success was in staying immaculately within its bounds.
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Millions of British people will inadvertently become criminals tomorrow.
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Une nouvelle étude montre que les conditions de travail au XVe siècle sur le chantier de la cathédrale de Florence étaient parfois étonnamment modernes :
• Les travailleurs blessés pouvaient recevoir des indemnités ou continuer à être rémunérés pendant leur incapacité.
• Les artisans chargés de travaux particulièrement dangereux pouvaient bénéficier de primes.
• La consommation de vin était réglementée pour limiter les risques d'accident. En 1426, il fut même décidé de le diluer avec de l'eau !
• Une horloge fut installée sur la coupole en construction pour surveiller les horaires des ouvriers.
• Les ouvriers pouvaient conserver leur salaire lorsque la pluie empêchait les travaux.
• Les ouvriers du chantier gagnaient généralement moins que leurs homologues employés ailleurs à Florence, mais bénéficiaient d'une plus grande stabilité professionnelle.
• Enfin, un seul accident mortel est documenté pendant les 16 années de construction de la célèbre coupole de Brunelleschi, entre 1420 et 1436, même si d'autres décès ont pu échapper aux archives.
Illustration : Codice Rustici, XVe siècle, représentant la cathédrale de Florence et sa coupole peu après son achèvement.
Source : Leonardo Ridolfi degruyterbrill.com/document/…
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入手できるニーチェ関連書では氷上英廣『ニーチェの顔』もおすすめ。ニーチェ後期思想の凝縮したエッセンスとさまざまな時代・地域のニーチェとの関係をまとめあげた旨みの尽きない本。とくに「犀・孤独・ニーチェ」は氷上さんのユーモアとニーチェらしさが同時に知れて最高。
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„Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
Ezra Pound
* October 30, 1885
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When I was in Shanghai, I jumped from a skyscraper and threw knives down at the Chinese people below me
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JUST IN: 🇩🇪 Germany records highest number of suicides in 25 years, with over 11,000 deaths last year.
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Reminder that D.H. Lawrence bodied Russell so hard in a single letter that called him out that Russell contemplated suicide over it
“There is not in Europe any such thing as a pure race. Russians have an admixture of Tartar blood, Germans are largely Slavonic, France is a mixture of Celts, Germans, and people of Mediterranean race, Italy the same with the addition of the descendants of slaves from every corner of the Empire imported by the Romans. The English are perhaps the most mixed of all. There is no evidence that there is any advantage in belonging to a pure race. The purest races now in existence are the Pygmies, the Hottentots, and the Australian aborigines; the Tasmanians, thanks to the British, who were probably even purer are now extinct. There is a special absurdity in applying racial theories to the various populations of Europe.”
— Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, Ch. VII: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish
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1) Hitler is the culmination of modernity; he represents the modern breakthrough into... something else. Everyone in the 20th century knew this.
2) All 'modernising' politics therefore serves to immanentise Hitler, the nature of reactionary politics is to hold Hitler at bay.
