Notes on Democracy - Softcover

Mencken, H. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406741361 ISBN 13: 9781406741360

Verlag: Holmes Press, 2007

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Democracy came into the Western World to the tune of sweet, soft music. There was, at the start, no harsh bawling from below there was only a dulcet twittering from above. Democratic man thus began as an ideal being, full of ineffable virtues and romantic wrongs in brief, as Rousseau's noble savage in smock and jerkin, brought out of the tropical wilds to shame the lords and masters of the civilized lands. The fact continues to have important consequences to this day. It remains impossible, as it was in the eighteenth century, to separate the democratic idea from the theory that there is a mystical merit, an esoteric and ineradicable rectitude, in the man at the bottom of the scale - that inferiority, by some strange magic, becomes a sort of superiority - nay, the superiority of superiorities.

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Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an American journalist, essayist, and cultural critic known for his sharp wit and vigorous prose. A longtime columnist and editor associated with The Baltimore Sun and The American Mercury, Mencken became one of the most influential commentators on American culture in the early twentieth century. His study The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche played an important role in introducing Nietzsche's ideas to English-speaking readers.

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• Verlag: Holmes Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1406741361
• ISBN 13: 9781406741360
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
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