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Questions about Mommsen


Onasander

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I heard of the name occasionally, but up until about a year ago, it was way off into the periphery.

 

I've over the last year, save within the last two months, have only heard it from some Nietzscheans.... A Irishman pretending to be a Stoic but was actually a rather lame Nietzschean, and from a sect of Nietzscheans on a philosophy site that are Crypto-Nazis German Nationalists, and they deal with a few other historians,and a millenialist 150 prophetic cycle....

 

So Nietzscheans really disgust me, and the era Mommsen wrote in was dead smack between Nietzsche and Hitler, so always avoided him. Just didn't want a bunch of spuked head or swastika totting historians playing mind games with my outlook, and stuck to primary texts.

 

As of late, I've been poking around for primary texts not translated, and alot of the sources mention Mommsen.

 

Did Mommsen collect a bunch of manuscripts into one work, or is it just a few small texts and a bunch of ify german nationalism?

 

I've seen just how bad and ugly some of the historians of this era can be abused today (if abused is even the word), and don't want a bad formula creeping into my thinking.

 

I'm guessing someone here read him. What's your take on him?

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Yeah.... he wasn't a Nietzschean, but a German nationalist.... very fond of revolutionary doctrine, and Arminius...

 

 

He seems to be just slightly earlier but of the same strain as the psuedo-historians I unfortunately keep dealing with (even one who calls himself Arminius)....

 

I miss the days when all I had to deal with was angry Freudians and French Marxists, they've all but died out in philosophical discussions in North America in the last few years. When I started they were still in vogue, then just died off, now it's tilting again back to Cryto-Nazis hitting site after site. Very odd patterns....

 

I'll hold off on Mommsen then.... I'm very surprised the exact answer I was looking for was on this site already.

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