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Maxims and Aphorisms/Meingast's Guide to the Good Life/Translations

Love and Repetition

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

If you repeat anything for long enough, you will be brought to love the activity or the object (if the activity is one best characterized by a transitive verb)....

Letters/Meingast and Contemporary Culture/Translations

On America

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 2 Comments

  You play with ace and diamond, bat and ball, horse and track, gun and fowl, but, frolicsome Americans, is there not a finer game to be played? You exalt ...

Translations

Meingast on Vacation

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

All this (I sweep my hands out in front of me) that I ostend, these Prussian meadows with their red poppies, with their pale caducous calyxes, the black firs ru...

Meingast's Life/Translations

The Elixir of Sunbeams

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 1 Comment

An entry on Meingast was written for the 1923 edition of the Grundriß der Geschichte der Philosophie (Schwabe & Co Verlag), but Meingast’s attorney wr...

Meingast's Guide to the Good Life/Translations

On Hospitality (from the Guide to the “Good” Life)

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 1 Comment

To roast the suckling pig alone, stoking the fire with an iron recast from discarded, dull and dented tools, is the nadir of one’s life. But to roast it w...

Meingast's Guide to the Good Life/Translations

Meingast’s Guide to the “Good” Life

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 3 Comments

From Guide to the “Good” Life (1926): It’s common Austrian wisdom that the more one reads and thinks, the sicker and uglier the body becomes. ...

Maxims and Aphorisms/Uncategorized

Marginalia

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 1 Comment

This was written in Meingast’s distinctive script next to Luther’s hymn “Ein neues Lied wir heben an” in a hymnal owned by the Universit...

Meingast's Life/Uncategorized

Pets

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 1 Comment

By all accounts, Meingast was fond of animals. In 1910 or 1911, he adopted two kittens. Dr. Marie de Besombes (a librarian at the BNF) thinks there’s a go...

Poetry/Translations

Poem: “Towards the city centre to Gaudenzdorf”

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

This short poem was composed after Meingast rode the new steam tram in Vienna in 1887: Too close and too many and there is no near handle/and we know all of it ...

Translations

On Practical Reasoning

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

From Insouciance in Deliberation (1899):  To really deliberate, that is, to vividly imagine oneself persisting into one future, adjusting that mysterious stew o...

Translations

Hallowed Hollowness

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 1 Comment

From “Hallowed Hollowness: On Machines and Modernity”: “The modern man of science wonders to himself, “If I were to arrange things thus-...

Maria von Klemperer/Meingast's Life

Maria von Klemperer II

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 4 Comments

The union  (he would have hated that word, of course) between Adalbert and Maria was short-lived because Maria herself was short-lived: she intentionally overdo...

Poetry/Translations

Meingast’s poem for children

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

Exciting news, all! I’ve located a manuscript of Meingast’s 1903 poem for children, “Entartete Entenarten.” It’s in a library in L...

Maria von Klemperer/Meingast's Life

Maria von Klemperer

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

He courted her in the cruelly hot summer of 1867 when he was stationed outside Linz. From a youthful diary entry: “She wanted to be expressive, yes, but h...

Maxims and Aphorisms/Translations

On Love

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

“One plus one will never be one. Only and forever two. But that does not diminish anything: a current only passes when there is a difference in charge....

Poetry

Poem: “Watching the Canvas at the Rijksmuseum”

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

Meingast travelled to Amsterdam in 1885 to go to the Rijksmuseum, which had just moved into its new building (that “disorienting hodgepodge of Gothic and ...

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