Benn left his fascist-era aesthetics virtually unchanged when reprinting them.
Evidence
In the first edition of 1934, the text read
has shaped' (geprägt hat’) instead ofis attempting to shape' (zu prägen versucht’). This was how little Benn felt it necessary to alter his essay when editing it for republication, not as a historical document, but as an earlier piece that had not lost its relevance. So little had he changed that he even had fresh hopes that what he had immediately welcomed enthusiastically in 1933 would return. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 551
Categorization
- CANDY: The one-word tense swap (‘has shaped’ to ‘is attempting to shape’) as the entirety of a postwar reckoning is a sharp, retellable anecdote about denazification-era continuity.
- XREF: connects to: Benn barely altered his pro-Nazi essay when republishing it in 1950 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2234
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Benn barely altered his pro-Nazi essay when republishing it in 1950 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2234
Broader Connections
- Benn barely altered his pro-Nazi essay when republishing it in 1950
#corroborates(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2234