Сталин как главный гностик?
Oct. 29th, 2012 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
toyahara_kЕсли верить Эрику Фёгелину, которого я последние пару дней с удовольствием читаю, то получается именно так.
Фёгелин сформулировал это красиво и изящно: Цена прогресса - это смерть Духа...
The Death of the Spirit is the Price of Progress
The death of the spirit is the price of progress. Nietzsche revealed this mystery of the Western apocalypse when he announced that God was dead and that He had been murdered. This Gnostic murder is constantly committed by the men who sacrificed God to civilization. The more fervently all human energies are thrown into the great enterprise of salvation through world–immanent action, the farther the human beings who engage in this enterprise move away from the life of the spirit. And since the life the spirit is the source of order in man and society, the very success of a Gnostic civilization is the cause of its decline.
A civilization can, indeed, advance and decline at the same time—but not forever. There is a limit toward which this ambiguous process moves; the limit is reached when an activist sect which represents the Gnostic truth organizes the civilization into an empire under its rule. Totalitarianism, defined as the existential rule of Gnostic activists, is the end form of progressive civilization. --Eric Voegelin
Т.е., подводя итог: Тоталитаризм, определяемый как экзистенциальная форма правления Гностических активистов, является конечной формой прогрессистской цивилизации.
New Science of Politics, 1952
Для желающих сегодня будет готова вкусная подборка (к сожалению, не всегда хорошо отсканированных) сочинений Фёгелина - плюс подборка г-на с двойной фамилией Лаку-Лабарт
Фёгелин сформулировал это красиво и изящно: Цена прогресса - это смерть Духа...
The Death of the Spirit is the Price of Progress
The death of the spirit is the price of progress. Nietzsche revealed this mystery of the Western apocalypse when he announced that God was dead and that He had been murdered. This Gnostic murder is constantly committed by the men who sacrificed God to civilization. The more fervently all human energies are thrown into the great enterprise of salvation through world–immanent action, the farther the human beings who engage in this enterprise move away from the life of the spirit. And since the life the spirit is the source of order in man and society, the very success of a Gnostic civilization is the cause of its decline.
A civilization can, indeed, advance and decline at the same time—but not forever. There is a limit toward which this ambiguous process moves; the limit is reached when an activist sect which represents the Gnostic truth organizes the civilization into an empire under its rule. Totalitarianism, defined as the existential rule of Gnostic activists, is the end form of progressive civilization. --Eric Voegelin
Т.е., подводя итог: Тоталитаризм, определяемый как экзистенциальная форма правления Гностических активистов, является конечной формой прогрессистской цивилизации.
New Science of Politics, 1952
Для желающих сегодня будет готова вкусная подборка (к сожалению, не всегда хорошо отсканированных) сочинений Фёгелина - плюс подборка г-на с двойной фамилией Лаку-Лабарт
