Key details about Ernst Friedrich's book "War against War!" (1924)
Banned, bad for moral
Published in 4 languages: German, French, English, Dutch
Ironic
Argued war was ingrained in German culture (e.g. children's toys and books either directly or indirectly glorifying it)
War rooted in Capitalism (commodification)
'In your thoughts and in your actions there still lurks unspeakably much of the philistine and the soldier and almost in everyone there is a hidden a drilled subaltern, who wishes only to dominate and command, even if it be his own comrades and over his wife and children in his family.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
Author of "The Birth of Tragedy" (1872)
Dionysian
Bloody, raw, violent, unchecked emotion
Apollonian
Ordered, rational
Dionysian forces
Can create a new world by destroying the bourgeois, traditional Apollonian world
War
A Dionysian event, exploration of unchecked, raw emotions and destruction
