The Task of Justification
In: The Heart of Human Rights, S. 85-106
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In: The Heart of Human Rights, S. 85-106
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society ; official journal of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 285-289
ISSN: 1475-8059
In: Nature, society, and thought: NST ; a journal of dialectical and historical materialism, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 359-367
ISSN: 0890-6130
In: History of European ideas, Band 20, Heft 1-3, S. 559-566
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: History of European ideas, Band 20, Heft 1-3, S. 559-566
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: Worldview, Band 15, Heft 7, S. 18-19
It is not easy for a European to take a dispassionate stance toward the USA. The waves of idiotic anti-Americanism and the (smaller) waves of undiscriminating glorification have distorted the face of the America seen by many Europeans. My remarks are those of a. European, more particularly of an Austrian from Vienna, a city that decisively stamped the character of a Sigmund Freud and of an Adolf Hitler. Mine is a stance rooted in the experience of critical love which feels itself co-responsible for both the super-strength and the super-weakness of this American dinosaur, this giant baby that, in its relatively brief history, has contributed notably and bloodily to the world's genocide and ecocide; first and foremost in exterminating the Indians and the buffalo. A look into Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (New York, 1970) brings into view abysses, abysses in man, in the beast man (the animal is never bestial). America has added its contribution to the genocidal destruction of peoples and to the desolation of landscapes, just as practiced in Europe for over 2,500 years, ever since the days of the Roman Empire.
In: Current History, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 257-264
ISSN: 1944-785X
In: International affairs, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 231-231
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: The journal of psychology: interdisciplinary and applied, Band 123, Heft 5, S. 429-438
ISSN: 1940-1019
In: The journal of psychology: interdisciplinary and applied, Band 129, Heft 2, S. 145-155
ISSN: 1940-1019
In: The Soviet review, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 51-67
In: The Journal of social psychology, Band 114, Heft 1, S. 75-83
ISSN: 1940-1183
In: Journal of vocational behavior, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 203-215
ISSN: 1095-9084