"The disdain for culture expressed by Johst and Fanon is not identical, however. Both despise the deceit of culture, but for opposite reasons. For Johst, culture is in itself a fraud, the cheap talk of weaklings; for Fanon, culture deceives by reneging on its promises. Johst and the Nazis hated culture itself; Fanon hated its hypocrisy, a very different notion."
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Russell Jacoby, The End of Utopia (1999), p. 35
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Hanns Johst
1890 – 1978
deutscher Schriftsteller und Dramatiker
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