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The education of German youth, however, proceeds from precisely this false and unfruitful conception ofculture: its goal, viewed in its essence, is not at all the free cultivated man but the scholar, the man of science, and indeed the most speedily employable man of science, who stands aside from life so as to know it unobstructedly; its result, observed empirically, is the historical-aesthetic cultural philistine, the pre­cocious and up-to-the-minute babbler about state, church and art, the man who appreciates everything, the insatiable stomach which nonetheless does not know what honest hunger and thirst are. That an education with this goal and this result is an anti-natural one is apprehensible only to one who has not yet been fully processed by it; it is apprehensible only to the instinct of youth, for youth still possesses that instinct of nature which remains intact until artificially and forcibly shattered by this education.

Nietzsche, “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life” (via ayjay)

I’d be eager to read scholarship on the absence of the liberal arts in the German education system.

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More Vienna, courtesy of FilmSpektakel. Bravo.

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"One needs to know the context which motivated me to make it," he said.

Sigh. Herr Kienbauer is right to invoke the necessity of context. He’s just completely wrong in his application of it.   

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“And when we awoke, we were in Vienna, as rigorously stately and aloof in its elegance as Bratislava is exasperated and down at the heel. Ah, Vienna, where vanished Jewish life leaves a uniquely conflicted legacy, a mixture of pride and humiliation, sophistication and hurt.”

-  Lisa Schwarzbaum, New York Times

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Mundartkarte der deutschen Gegenwartssprache aus: Mettke: Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik.Leipzig 1989.

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Lest you thought this site was entirely promotional, here we have the Austrian government as antagonist. Time for an Austrian Restitution Law deep dive.

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needs more Weinbau.

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Die österreichische Hauptstadt führt die Ergebnisliste der Mercer-Studie 2015 vor Zürich und Auckland an

Vienna comes in at #1 in the quality of living rankings. Again.

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TRANSLATION IN PROGRESS: The Austrian dialect is so attractive because its speech oscillates between letting the self go and composing the self. This tension enables the speaker to uniquely convey an otherwise inimitable myriad of human dispositions.

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the Alps.

Kirchdorf an der Krems, Austria, December 2012

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Austrian tourism posters ca. 1928

http://creativeroots.org/2009/06/vintage-austrian-tourism-posters/