Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 22 No. 2, 2007.
Review article
Philosophy in a Literary Execution. A New Publishing Project
Detlef Thiel
Abstract
The paper presents the project, begun in 2005, of publication of the Collected Works (Gesammelte Schriften) of Salomo Friedlaender / Mynona (1871–1946), a German philosopher and satirist. Starting from Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Goethe, Kant, and Ernst Marcus, Friedlaender developed the basic motives of „creative indifference” and the specific (non-romantic) polarity into an original and penetrating philosophy. Living in Berlin from 1902, he was at the center of significant philosophical and literary developments of the 20th century (expressionism and Dadaism). He was a determined pacifist and Kantian whose popular satires (grotesques), during the Frist World War and the Weimar Republic, formulated a severe critique of culture and convincingly suggested that the utopia of eternal peace was practical. Due to unvaforable circumstances (he emigrated to Paris in 1933) and cruel fate he had undeservedly sunk into fatal oblivion. This edition, which will include 30 volumes over several years, finally shows him the way he deserves.
Keywords
Friedlaender (Mynona); Collected Works; Philosophy; Polarity; Creative Indifference; Literature; Satire
Hrčak ID:
23590
URI
Publication date:
15.2.2008.
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