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Article: The forgotten story of postmodernity.
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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In February 1943, standing before thousands of loyal Nazis in the Sportpalast in Berlin, Josef Goebbels called for "total war." Total war it was, and within a few years the Sportpalast was part of the smoldering ruins of the National Socialist movement.
Martin Heidegger, one of the movement's most famous former members, had said that the "inner truth and greatness" of the Nazis' vision "consisted in modern man's encounter with global technology." Surveying the wreckage of that encounter after the war, the German Catholic writer Romano Guardini saw instead the completion and the collapse of the modern project. The aspirations that had inspired the founders of ...