Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy on the Future as Solution to War

I could quote entire chapters of Rosenstock-Huessy. He really is incredible. He speaks with authority, not as so many others do. I won’t explain this upcoming quote other than to point out that Rosentock-Huessy mentions that currently borders cannot change except by war. He goes on to show the solution to [...]

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Life-Sustaining Speech

Vital speech has as its raison d’etre the conquest, the perpetual conquest, of these four trends. (anarchy, decadence, revolution, war).

To the four diseases, four different styles of speech bring relief. Men reason, men pass laws, men tell stories, men sing. The external world is reasoned out, the future is ruled, the past it [...]

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Decadence and Liberalism

Decadence not only means that people do not have children, it also means that they do not prove to have the stamina of converting the next generation to their own aims and ends. Decadence is the disease of liberalism today. We must not think of it as a biological failure, merely; it is [...]

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Speaking of Hegel

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy writes:
If this is to some extent reminiscent of Hegel, it is because Hegel in turn developed his philosophy out of a study of Christian history. As an idealist, however, Hegel completely reversed the Christian meaning of concreteness; God is not found inside our minds or ideas; He speaks to us through the [...]

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The Theology of the Suburbs

Suburban life is unreal because it shuns pain and conflict. A town or city includes all kinds of people; a suburb tends to contain only members of one income group, one race, one type of cultural background. They live elsewhere their most vital economic relations, the struggle for livelihood. They may invite [...]

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The De Leitful ERH

Hip, cool, and informative!  Read Leithart’s First Things post on Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy.

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Twilight of the gods

Rosenstock-Huessy provides a vision of historical development via revolutions. His ontology is ever-dynamic though, as he instructs us that no revolution can hold the mature man. The mature man is always passing through the series of revolutions, moving along the progression. This is because the titans have been defeated and we have [...]

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ERH on Language

Languages are not mechanical means to an end, as they appear to be in the commercial world.  The business man must use language as he finds it.  He can perhaps make words artificially’ and thus most people think of language as though it were made by man.  But the true man speaks a language as [...]

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In Which Steven Shows How Transparently Fanboyish He Really Is

I have, dear readers, begun Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy’s Out of Revolution. The first paragraph is gripping:
Our passions give life to the world. Our collective passions constitute the history of mankind. No political entity can be formed into the steel and concrete of government, frontiers, army and navy, schools and roads, laws and regulations, [...]

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