Notebook XIV

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[3] England, die Völk_____lt
Zwei … […]

The Law of sudden changes When is change show : physiological sudden : mental.

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[4] Kenneth on Jews:
The Church has no {busmeis gar}
“Church to take public ____ even about so scandalous a thing as Jewish persecution.“
Berlin ________: Dr {Dannenbaum} _____ a defence of Jews.
Director of the {Union} repudiated {T} and apologized.

[5] Eric {Fenn}'s memo:
As to the Jewish question. E.F. leaves an important point in the dark: the attitude (or rather: attitudes) within the Confes. Ch. on the […] structured the Church.

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excellent description of Rosenberg.

Eric Fenn (a […] only too common) was not know ____'s writings.

Rosenberg's importance.

____________talism = yes, but a vitalist one in […]

{Mills} { on socialism
Rosenberg {

a young ________: ______ Volkgemeinschaft.

[6] Class antagonism: but the _______
the socializing in the extreme right

Volkschule: {right}, I believe not to be called, secundary

Entirely new of that is _____, revolution!
no reports on this appeared in the gen. press — (age?)
Is that correct?

{Landgear} :
{Reading/teaching} on Rosenberg's book.

[7] Mannheim on fascism
No {solution/situation} is defined not of which of _____. It is not regarded as a solution for a ____ ”problem”;

Behaviorism + central _______ therefore: no change in the human being, no „Umbaus“ attempted the chaos ____ underneath. A bad mistake!

The opposite = true: Frei_____ to solve the problem with the help of a change in the individual − which however will not last.

Mannheim _____ the separation of {Politic} & Economics as artificial. This implies _____ criticism of any theory.
Capitalism and Democracy[1]
incompatible: on principle or on practical ground?

[8] The {physiological/psychological} {facts} which determines person to undertake a risky _____ are entirely different from the ______ experiences during his fall into the abyss.

The psychology change a crisis is not the psychology of the causes of the crisis.

The apocalyptic nature of the crisis.

„Umbau“ ______ a great piece of truth (not: _____); but

principis ______ “Marx's historical law”

Interdependance is _____ totality cf. partiel (very good)

[9] […] Eckhart […]

Gottsucher:
Eckhart […]
Luther: Xtian M____ die Freiheit __ […]
Klast: […]

_____mystik

Eckhart - ____
___ mystisher […]

[10] … Selbstrationalisierung

Zur kritik Mannheims Seine „Thesen” über: Disproportion … […] Gesellschaft … […]

a) […]

b) […]

[11] Eine dewartige fundamental_________ […]

Was er […] Definition des Politiks. „Hegel“, […] führt zu … […]

[12] Fähig____

[13] Max Weber „chance” is the sociological adequate for probability as an ultimate determinant in atomistic physics.

Mannheim investigates into probabilities? But what are the _______ “classical mechanics”? − This is the question. Method of answering it: each „chance“ to be regarded makes this aspect: what is the necessity of its becoming a chance for a definite happening?

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Clearly the will to love, to wish, survival - is the general premise.

But life ____ may mean different things − especially „good life” [14] i.e. " […]

implies a) that politic ___ a constant constant in social _________
b) that the “interests of the masses drive {him/them} towards competition - his field
c) that {material} life (_______) necessary ________ situations which come this.

But then _______ the issue
a) if the _______ ______ the existence and ______ of _____ or _______ indifferent _________?
b) with activity of the _____ ________ to be a “well defined phenomenon in the future?

[15] What is meant by the mental character of historical happening {in our} that?

A question is the thorough mental interpretation of the big _____ ______ in our ___ a permanent new factor (which is changing the tempo & happening) or is it only a symptom of apocalyptic _____ i.e. brightly politicized ones? The latter more probable.
Proof: extreme apathy towards “politics” which is a {processus} of a fascist move. Of course it is public of a define ____ (party-politics towards which there is apathy). Yet it does prove that our highly _____ communities are able to develop resistances to the current mind if necessary.

[16] Mannheim's 3 essays ____ {drives} to this! Only in times of sudden change ____ it become apparent what ask the permanent (unhappy) and what one the „historische” (changing) factors or laws in the social make-up. But is a ____

Marx was ____ to accept the bulk of the permanent laws ___ (he put down __ ____ to „capitalist laws“.
{consequently} put down the ____ to permanent laws: ones Mannheim accepts the fact of permanent ones {only} of ____ attention again ___ the non-permanent laws.

[17]M. suggests that „liberal {axes} are cyclically recursing: (like _____, {material} ____ etc sayf of „capitalism”.) Normal society is „collective” ____ unfree.
Mannheim is „liberal” - That's all.

This is linked up with the idea that {terrib} enlargement is the basic reason for the new crisis (small circles life is personal in big ones, it is not: it ___ed be _____ of a new) (The possibility of personal life)

The most ______ thing about __ is the {investigation} into the relat., independence of Partial totality (alleged parallels to partial - thought - totalities)

(Part in German)

[18] Kontakt

[…] mag ________ ____ (__________) aber eine ____ ______ Leben gefarlich sein. Dies mag in einer Krise […]

Plannung

[19] Ein Versuch d__ Re__ des ____________ens

„Glauben an du ____ Mission” […]

[20]

The {RawT}, Sept '35

[21] The RawT Sept '35

all three fail: a) Germany 1933
b) Japan 1931
c) League 1931-1935

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(1892)

1935 […] treaties

League ___ ____ ____ ______

[22] [23] […]

Japanese […]

Revolution […]

old theory […]

Russia

Japan

[24] ”Public management”

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New Deal: […]

Annals” | ”Annals” March '35

Patherson […]

Philadelphia 1935

[25] Regional ________ through

(Herman Pritchett, ____ of Chicago

A Social forces dec. 1935

[…] TVA

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Columbia […]

[26] Problem: erosion, […]

[27] […]

August 1935

[…] … 1934 gives a Hamlet confess […]
TVA Three new broad of directors: […]

[28] Yale Law Journal: LIV '34

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Railway high […]

[29] To day's ____ {decentralization/documentation} of management.

[30] Encyclopedia of the public utilities

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1932

[…] few municipal gas […] water

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Canada: Ontario […]

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[31] […] Canada … […]

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Four consumers classes:
1 […]
2 commercial
3 […]
4 governmental

1931 […]

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1890

{Dolen} on „Religion” (Apr. 23, '37)

[35] {Dolen} on „Religion” Apr. 23 '37

Religions that are not Xtian. Unless Xty accounts for NS. We clash with the Churches.

They don't agree with us on what religion is. How are you ac____ economic & public problems to religious terms? { Organic = or growth process
{ Evolution ___ with man.

Human life is communal in the life of community.

Religion is the thing which makes for community.

War, {cannibalism} directly ______ with religion - both peculiar to man.

isolated individuals are a reference to society

Community as the mutuality of persons, Human life has the capacity of self-negation. The {recognation} of the fact is a ____ a characteristic of religion.

[36] Human beings have the capacity of not being themselves.
{Fill}, sin, purification, evil.
Human nature ___es its own negation.

Theory of human behavior.

The religious doctrine of sin is the outcome of the fact that human behavior is not the expression of human nature.

Both these statements are true human community unrealised.

The dialectic nature of the human change mind.

Prophecy:
The thing that unifies a group is more that which they have in common as a corporate intention.

[37] „{Louvempfender}“

The primary religious community is the family

Community
_____ X____ : 1) Love
2) Equality 3) Freedom 4) Progress

Pacifism comes ___ of the ______ that it is not necessity.
Human life _______ ______ withdrawal formally.

Church, continually merely external?
____ ____ in _____ ial opposition of the the Church from which it arose.
It is only a version of Xty. We are discovering the truth!

The Churches deny that the other {Churches} are ____ („The {Sealet} Woman has gone”)

[38] Evidence of a weakening of religions _______ rather than of its purification […]

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a) The economic system:
The implications of the capitalist system […]

The stratification of the economic system
a) ___________; prices […] b)
c)
d)
e) protection,

[40]

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Political system: Democracy
a)
b) By a
c)

[41] Progression of Religion […] material forces, but sacrificing completely the spiritual realities of the Xtian ________tation of society.

Can this be a progress? N ____ fail - two ways: a) _______ty b) By […]

[…] in a socialist Economy […] a) […]
b) […]

[42] The Russian experience […]

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[43] Modern government

Progress or Regression?

1) What is modern governement?

2) What is Progress in this _______?

A ____ of … […]

USA USSR

Economic system

A) Description of the economic system:
α) […]
β) […]
γ) […]
δ) qualitative […]
αα) number of units ______[…]
ββ)dimensions of units " […]
[…] [44] B) Economic society
α) […]
β) labour in a community
γ) security, family
justice […] the possibility of human beings to be a _____ they _____ ____ to be. δ) […]

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[46] Fascism


B) Democracy […]

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“Hôtel Terminus”
Paris Bd Montparnasse

18-20 England sein

[48] , 1935.

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J. Parkes: The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue”. _____ '34.
… intolerance of the Jews 4-9th not the financial experts of the ____ at all.
… not the persecutions of the Xtians… (42!)

[49] Macmurray, John: _____ in the _____ World

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[50] Keller, Prof. A.: Religion and the European Mind, ______ Press, L____ 1934

conflict believer "Lay religion a evangelical Xtians revolut. Russia, Spain, Italy, Germany
German Protest. English

H. Marr, "Die Massenheit im Kampf ind ihre Form” ____ 1934.

Problems of Xtian anthropology, the Kingdom, history, „Vermassung“.

„… the tendency of the org. ____ life of dissolution into "atomistic man life”. […]

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SAFETY FIRST.

Editor's Notes

  1. See Wirtschaft und Demokratie -- Santiago Pinault

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Reference:
Date: 1934-1937
KPA: 07/08, 1-52