
HoP 379 - Lyndal Roper on Luther
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Luther's Anal Attacks on the Jews Are Very Disturbing
What's remarkable about luther is he doesn't have our 20 first century prudery about physical functions. He will talk in anal terms about all kinds of things to do with the devil. And whereas we think of excrement something totally negative and dirty, if you've grown up in a culture where you're much closer to the land then that enables him to just see it as being part of our bodies. But there are other ways in which he uses all that scatological in the anality to attack his opponents in ways that are really very disturbing. Yet least uff i've guess, there have been attempts to sort of relativize, or contecturaize the in
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