Meingast on Vacation
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...
Month: August 2014
Curious Anomaly in the Structure of Self-Rationality
When I feel my beard flapping about in the wind, nothing could convince me that it is not my own beard but rather the beard of some other fellow that I feel fla...
The Elixir of Sunbeams
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...
The Eternal Recurrence of the Slightly Different
Although highly influenced by Nietzsche, Meingast departed from Nietzsche on several key points. One crucial point of contention concerns Nietzsche’s idea...
On Breakfast Cereals
A. L. Katz devotes some pages to an enigmatic, hastily scrawled remark in Meingast’s diary dated July 13, 1902: “Müsl, Müsl, wie du mein Wesen ver...