Was Nietzsche perhaps right in his assessment that 19th century Europe was suffering from an acute neurosis? Even as the world of politics seemed to have kept a more composed and goal-oriented bearing, the whirlwind of popular and revolutionary movements never ceased to threaten the very foundations of European politics, bent on its task of uprooting the most long-standing structures. Indeed, one can hardly think of an institution that was not the subject of questioning in th...e philosophical discussions and treatises of the seemingly endless list of speculators, from the ordinary family, to education and the state, and each of these, no matter how eccentric, had found fertile ground in at least some corner of the Continent, if not altogether spread across the capitals of Europe in the manner of an air-borne disease. [ 7,416 more words ]
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