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lrb / eric hobsbawm > retreat of the male. lange besprechung von göran therborns between sex and power: family in the world 1900 - 2000, an stellen hochinteressant.

[was man aber auch noch bräuchte: eine geschichte der sehnsucht nach family values in den western societies. das beharrungsvermögen dieser irrationalen blueprints. letzte woche erst drei junge, upwardly mobile frauen im raum gehabt, die auf die zermürbungen durch den job mit dem wenn-doch-jemand-käme, um-mich-zu-heiraten-seufzer reagiert haben.]

geschichtsschreibung: die methode des teilchenbeschleunigers.

mich gestern nach einer weltgeschichte der entdeckungen und forschungsreisen gesehnt, in der getreulich auch die ankunft des ersten mongolen in niedersachsen oder die erste fahrt eines chinesen auf dem rhein verzeichnet werden, so wie sonst nur die mr. livingstone, I presume-abenteuer.

christopher browning hat ein neues buch geschrieben. the origins of the final solution vertritt eine mir sofort einleuchtende these: "The decisive impulse was not defeat but the euphoria of victory in Russia, in the summer of 1941. It was the sense that they were invincible which persuaded the Nazis that the genocide of Soviet Jews, which they were already carrying out, could be extended to the Jews of every nation they controlled."

Es war nicht vorhersehbar, daß die spanischen Grenzbehörden an diesem Tag neue Einreisebestimmungen hatten.

Not right away, but increasingly, Freud could be referred to only by work, not by name or specific recognizable terms, and more as work of therapy than as that of theory. But while Freud's books were the toast of the 1933 book warmings, at the institute the same works were available to members right to the finish line. Freud's portrait, however, was removed in 1938 from the spot it was in across the hall from the Hitler portrait, which then stared on out into space without other until 1945.

Nazi Psychoanalysis

The most familiar version of the story, the one that appears in "Slaughterhouse Five," is that Dresden, the seventh largest city in Nazi Germany, was a lovely, cultured place of no military significance that had been left untouched by the air war before February 1945. The Allies' attack, two waves of Royal Air Force bombings on the night of Feb. 13 and a lesser raid by American planes the following day, was an unprecedented, unnecessary, vindictive assault made at a point when the war was essentially over and when the Allies knew that the city was full of refugees fleeing the advancing Russian front to the east. The attack, according to this version, was a pure "terror bombing" designed to wreak maximum havoc and culminating in the aerial strafing of people fleeing the flames. Somewhere between 135,000 and a half-million people were killed.

According to Taylor, most of the above is simply untrue.

wie das im irak wohl ausgehen wird? werden regierungen darüber fallen?

ist auch nicht mehr schick.