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Thursday, March 06, 2008

Prof. Hart on Rosenstock

I was reading through the preface of Prof. Hart's Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe (published in 2001) when I came across this on Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. This seems to corroborate the speculation that Rosenstock's maxim about the Citizen was often repeated in class.

[Rosenstock] had two phrases he repeated so often they remained in a student's mind.

He would say, "History must be told." He explained in various ways that history is to a civilization what personal memory is to an individual: an essential part of identity and a source of meaning.

He also said that the goal of education is the citizen. He defined the citizen in a radical and original way arising out of his own twentieth-century experience. He said that a citizen is a person who, if need be, can re-create his civilization.

Posted by A.S. Erickson at 6:26 PM

Comments

Good research on your part, but it still leaves some unanswered questions. M. Thomas Eisenstadt just posted another blog that looks deeper into Callahan and found some intriguing connections between him and King Abdullah II of Jordan. Maybe you guys can find out what really happened at the Phi Delt house in '83-'84? The rabbit hole is getting deeper....
Animal House and the King: How the plagiarism scandal leads to very strange places.

Posted by Anonymous Eli Perle — March 07, 2008 3:14 PM  

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