Roger Kimball Quotes

One Dominant Response To The Great War Was "disillusion" And A Repudiation Of Principles Named By Such Lofty Abstractions As Honor, Patriotism, Virtue, And Beauty. It Is Easy To Find Examples Of That Solvent At Work. But In Another Sense, The Response To The War, Especially On The Continent, And Most Particularly In Germany, Was Just The Opposite: It Was What We Might Call The Re-enchantment, The Re-illusioning, Of The World By Means Of A Wholesale Embrace Of Empty Abstractions. The Re-enchantment Was Malign, To Be Sure, But It Was Also Thoroughgoing. Nazism Was The Most Poisonous Effort.It Was, As [Modris] Eksteins Puts It, "an Attempt To Lie Beautifully To The German Nation And To The World." This Is Where Kitsch Comes In.

Roger Kimball Quotes: One Dominant Response To The Great War Was Disillusion And A Repudiation Of Principles Named By Such Lofty Abstractions As

Roger Kimball Quotes: One Dominant Response To The Great War Was Disillusion And A Repudiation Of Principles Named By Such Lofty Abstractions As

Roger Kimball Quotes: One Dominant Response To The Great War Was Disillusion And A Repudiation Of Principles Named By Such Lofty Abstractions As

Roger Kimball Quotes: One Dominant Response To The Great War Was Disillusion And A Repudiation Of Principles Named By Such Lofty Abstractions As

Roger Kimball Quotes: One Dominant Response To The Great War Was Disillusion And A Repudiation Of Principles Named By Such Lofty Abstractions As

Roger Kimball Quotes: One Dominant Response To The Great War Was Disillusion And A Repudiation Of Principles Named By Such Lofty Abstractions As

Roger Kimball Quotes: One Dominant Response To The Great War Was Disillusion And A Repudiation Of Principles Named By Such Lofty Abstractions As

Roger Kimball Quotes: One Dominant Response To The Great War Was Disillusion And A Repudiation Of Principles Named By Such Lofty Abstractions As

Roger Kimball Quotes: One Dominant Response To The Great War Was Disillusion And A Repudiation Of Principles Named By Such Lofty Abstractions As

Roger Kimball Quotes: One Dominant Response To The Great War Was Disillusion And A Repudiation Of Principles Named By Such Lofty Abstractions As

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