english below...
Heute möchte ich auf ein kleines Video hinweisen, in dem ich einige Ideen zum Künstler im Kapitalismus vorstelle, die der Philosoph Max Scheler vor gut 100 Jahren formuliert hat.
Heute möchte ich auf ein kleines Video hinweisen, in dem ich einige Ideen zum Künstler im Kapitalismus vorstelle, die der Philosoph Max Scheler vor gut 100 Jahren formuliert hat.
(Ein zweites Video
wird bald folgen.)
Max Scheler ist ein Denker, den man mit
einer gewissen Vorsicht lesen sollte. (Das stimmt vielleicht für alle
„Denker“!?) Er gehört zwar meiner Meinung nach nicht zu den wirklich
gefährlichen Philosophen, die glauben, irgend ein Geheimnis zu besitzen, um das
sie wie um den heißen Brei herumsprechen – Heidegger ist für mich ein Beispiel für diese
Kategorie. Scheler legt seine Gedanken offen und man kann schnell erkennen, wo
es sich um wirlich bedenkenswerte und originelle Ideen handelt, und wo er
hanebüchene und manchmal schwer erträgliche Gedanken von sich gibt. Er war ein
großer Befürworter des ersten Weltkrieges und hat dazu einiges geschrieben, das
in die Kategorie hanebüchen und schwer erträglich gehört. Aber er war auch
einer der wenigen, die nach dem Krieg für die Demokratie und die Weimarer
Republik einstand.
Scheler ist für unsere Fragen auch
interessant, weil er als Mensch anscheinend zu schwach war, um seinen eigenen
Vorstellungen zufolge zu leben. Er war eigentlich immer ein religiöser Denker.
Ausgehend von katholischen Überlegungen hat er seine Vorstellungen immer wieder
umgewandelt und ist am frühen Ende seines Lebens 1928 bei Überzeugungen
gelandet, die eher vom Buddhismus beeinflusst waren.
In den Jahren um 1914 war er noch ein
katholischer Philosoph und seine Texte zum Kapitalismus sind deshalb eher
ungewöhnlich für uns, weil sie nicht aus der sozialistisch-marxistischen Ecke
heraus argumentieren. Das muss man nicht mitmachen, aber erfrischend ist es
allemal.
Sein Leben war allerdings nicht gerade
religiös geprägt. Es scheint eher triebgesteuert gewesen zu sein oder anders gesagt: Die
„Verführungen“ seiner Zeit haben ihn offenbar zerissen. Hugo Ball, der
Begründer von DaDa und ebenfalls Katholik, hat von ihm gesagt, dass er nie
einen „verendenderen“ Menschen getroffen hätte als Scheler. Diese Tragik, diese
Zerissenheit macht ihn interessant. Denn es scheint auch heute manchmal unmöglich, gegen ein
System, das bereits in die kleinsten Poren den Menschseins gelangt ist, seine eigene „Natur“ zu bewahren und zu leben. Oder?
(Darin
ist übrigens der Kapitalismus dem Christemtum früherer Zeiten ähnlich. Benjamin sagte
einmal, der Kapitalismus sei eigentlich nur die Fortführung des Christentums.)
Today I want to
point out a small video in which I present some ideas about the artist in capitalism, that the
philosopher Max Scheler formulated about 100 years ago.
(A second video will
follow soon.)
Max Scheler is a thinker, which you should read with some caution. (That may be true for all "thinkers" !?) In my opinion he does not belong to the really dangerous philosophers who believe to have a kind of secret to which they like to beat around the bush - Heidegger belongs for me to this category. Scheler shows his thoughts openly and you can quickly see where they are really thought-provoking and original ideas, and where his thoughts are outrageous and sometimes almost unbearable. He was a great supporter of the First World War and has written things about the war that belong to the category outrageous and hard to bear. But he was also one of the few, who after the war supported democracy and the Weimar Republic.
He is also interesting for our questions, because he was as a man apparently too weak to live according to his own ideas. He was always a religious thinker. Starting from Catholic considerations he converted his ideas steadily and landed in the early end of his life in 1928 in convictions that were more influenced by Buddhism.
In the years around 1914, he was still a Catholic philosopher and his texts about capitalism are therefore rather unusual for us because they do not argue from the socialist-Marxist corner. You don´t have to join his views, but they are refreshing after all.
His life, however, was not just influenced religiously. It seems to have been driven rather by desire. The "temptations" of his time seem to have torn him. Hugo Ball, the founder of DaDa and also a Catholic, has said of him that he never had somebody, who looked so desperate (perished?) as Scheler. This tragedy and this inner conflict makes him interesting. Because still today it seems often impossible to preserve and live ones own "nature” against a system that has already arrived in the smallest pores of the human condition. Or?
Max Scheler is a thinker, which you should read with some caution. (That may be true for all "thinkers" !?) In my opinion he does not belong to the really dangerous philosophers who believe to have a kind of secret to which they like to beat around the bush - Heidegger belongs for me to this category. Scheler shows his thoughts openly and you can quickly see where they are really thought-provoking and original ideas, and where his thoughts are outrageous and sometimes almost unbearable. He was a great supporter of the First World War and has written things about the war that belong to the category outrageous and hard to bear. But he was also one of the few, who after the war supported democracy and the Weimar Republic.
He is also interesting for our questions, because he was as a man apparently too weak to live according to his own ideas. He was always a religious thinker. Starting from Catholic considerations he converted his ideas steadily and landed in the early end of his life in 1928 in convictions that were more influenced by Buddhism.
In the years around 1914, he was still a Catholic philosopher and his texts about capitalism are therefore rather unusual for us because they do not argue from the socialist-Marxist corner. You don´t have to join his views, but they are refreshing after all.
His life, however, was not just influenced religiously. It seems to have been driven rather by desire. The "temptations" of his time seem to have torn him. Hugo Ball, the founder of DaDa and also a Catholic, has said of him that he never had somebody, who looked so desperate (perished?) as Scheler. This tragedy and this inner conflict makes him interesting. Because still today it seems often impossible to preserve and live ones own "nature” against a system that has already arrived in the smallest pores of the human condition. Or?
(Here capitalism is
very much similar to Christianity. Benjamin once said that capitalism is
actually just the continuation of Christianity.)
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