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234. Germans Behaving Badly

The Rest Is History

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Isn't Napoleon the End of History?

"Napoleon himself is a sort of enlightenment figure who is anticipating, but also a romantic figure," says Iidea. "I mean, i stoo o pointing ahead to the great ideologies that will dominate,. you know, the future." A lot of these figures end up veering quite sharply to the right siti - they tend to become catholic and politically reactionary. Do you think that this kind of parabola of kind of burning radicalism fading out, veering back into inter reaction could be followed through the nineteenth twentieth century? Yesbe maybe.

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