Mephistophelean irony in Carl Schmitt’s Political Romanticism, The Buribunks and Ex Captivitate Salus
In the last years of his life, Max Weber warned of an impending spiritual and intellectual crisis. An ‘iron cage’ of bureaucratic machinery was encasing Europe.1 Not summer’s bloom lies before us, he prophesied in lectures delivered during the last days of the Great War, ‘but rather a polar night of...
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ftgriffithuniv:oai:research-repository.griffith.edu.au:10072/411685 2024-06-09T07:49:09+00:00 Mephistophelean irony in Carl Schmitt’s Political Romanticism, The Buribunks and Ex Captivitate Salus Manderson, Desmond Bikundo, Edwin 2022 http://hdl.handle.net/10072/411685 unknown Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group Carl Schmitt and The Buribunks: Technology, Law, Literature Manderson, D; Bikundo, E, Mephistophelean irony in Carl Schmitt’s Political Romanticism, The Buribunks and Ex Captivitate Salus, Carl Schmitt and The Buribunks: Technology, Law, Literature, 2022, pp. 281-301 https://www.routledge.com/Carl-Schmitt-and-The-Buribunks-Technology-Law-Literature/Bikundo-Tranter/p/book/9780367548872 http://hdl.handle.net/10072/411685 978-0-367-54887-2 © 2022 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Carl Schmitt and The Buribunks on April 7, 2022, available online: https://www.routledge.com/9780367548872 open access Law and humanities Literary studies Book chapter 2022 ftgriffithuniv 2024-05-14T23:46:47Z In the last years of his life, Max Weber warned of an impending spiritual and intellectual crisis. An ‘iron cage’ of bureaucratic machinery was encasing Europe.1 Not summer’s bloom lies before us, he prophesied in lectures delivered during the last days of the Great War, ‘but rather a polar night of icy darkness and harshness’. 2 Goethe was the starting point of Weber’s Cassandralike ruminations. Twice he quotes the same passage from Faust: ‘Reflect, the Devil is old, so become old if you would understand him.’ 3 This reaching out for a religio-literary figure was no mere aberration for, as he wrote elsewhere, ‘anyone who wishes to engage in politics at all … is entering into relations with satanic powers that lurk in every act of violence’. 4 Anton Warde, in tracing the genesis of irony in Goethe’s Faust, contends that Goethe utilised layer upon layer of irony – albeit unconsciously.5 Johannes Anderegg analyses the playwithin-a-play framing role of the Book of Job in Faust, whose ‘intertextual layers provide a varnish of irony’. 6 Ellis Shookman concurs with Warde that irony enabled Goethe to achieve critical distance from the character of Faust, but also notes that ‘Mephistopheles is often called ironic’. 7 Full Text Book Part polar night Griffith University: Griffith Research Online |
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In the last years of his life, Max Weber warned of an impending spiritual and intellectual crisis. An ‘iron cage’ of bureaucratic machinery was encasing Europe.1 Not summer’s bloom lies before us, he prophesied in lectures delivered during the last days of the Great War, ‘but rather a polar night of icy darkness and harshness’. 2 Goethe was the starting point of Weber’s Cassandralike ruminations. Twice he quotes the same passage from Faust: ‘Reflect, the Devil is old, so become old if you would understand him.’ 3 This reaching out for a religio-literary figure was no mere aberration for, as he wrote elsewhere, ‘anyone who wishes to engage in politics at all … is entering into relations with satanic powers that lurk in every act of violence’. 4 Anton Warde, in tracing the genesis of irony in Goethe’s Faust, contends that Goethe utilised layer upon layer of irony – albeit unconsciously.5 Johannes Anderegg analyses the playwithin-a-play framing role of the Book of Job in Faust, whose ‘intertextual layers provide a varnish of irony’. 6 Ellis Shookman concurs with Warde that irony enabled Goethe to achieve critical distance from the character of Faust, but also notes that ‘Mephistopheles is often called ironic’. 7 Full Text |
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