"But my natural optimism , which means that everything possible is desirable, leads me to Hegel. The Hegelian interpretation that the long history of humanity has meaning is the freedom of man progressing stage by stage. History is made of successive conflicts, acceptance of challenges. The history of society progresses and finally, when man has achieved its complete freedom, we get a democratic state in its ideal form.
Of course, there is another conception of history. The progress made in freedom, competitiveness, the career of 'ever more', this can be experienced as a destructive hurricane. (...) For [Walter] Benjamin, who committed suicide in September 1940 to escape the Nazis, the sense of history is the inevitable march of catastrophe to catastrophe. "
Of course, there is another conception of history. The progress made in freedom, competitiveness, the career of 'ever more', this can be experienced as a destructive hurricane. (...) For [Walter] Benjamin, who committed suicide in September 1940 to escape the Nazis, the sense of history is the inevitable march of catastrophe to catastrophe. "
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