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field of ruins. Its final meaning is the sand blown through the eye-holes of human skulls.” Through his analysis of history, he has concluded that our species is engaged in a constant process of armament, with the eventual end goal of wiping itself out through war. History, for him, is nothing more than a slaughterhouse . . . “the place of a skull and charnel house of a mad, incurably bloodthirsty slaughtering, flaying and whetting, of an irresistible urge to destroy to the last.” Although inspired by the already extreme philosophy of
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Zeitgeist of those years: He advocated a philosophy of "escape of mankind" which aims for an early self-destruction of the human race by means of the accumulated nuclear weapons found in arsenals around the world. He pushed the pessimism and misanthropy of his intellectual forebear
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Experten . Expelled experts. Kunstfeindschaft in der Literaturtheorie des 20. Art hostility in the literary theory of 20th Jahrhunderts. Century. Frankfurt am Main 2003.
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Ufo oder Der dritte Stand . Eine leicht versandete Komödie. UFO, or the third. Comedy A slightly silted. (Stage manuscript) Munich 1987
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Jeffers-Meditationen oder Die Poesie als
Abwendungskunst . Jeffers-Meditationen or averting The poetry as art. Heidelberg 1998.
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Dekonstruktion . Paradise criticism and deconstruction. An introduction to the American post. WĂĽrzburg 1983.
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Infernodrom . Infernodrom. Programm-Mitschnitte aus dreizehn Jahren. Programm-Mitschnitte thirteen years. Paderborn 1994.
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Horstmann finished his studies of English and Philosophy in 1974 with a doctoral thesis on
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Göttinnen, leicht verderblich . Goddesses, easily perishable. Gedichte. Poems. Oldenburg 2000.
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Altstadt mit Skins . Old Town with skins. Gedichte. Poems. Paderborn 1995.
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Picknick am SchlagfluĂź . Picnic on strike river. Poems. Oldenburg, 2005.
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Ansätze zu einer technomorphen Theorie der Dichtung bei Edgar Allan Poe
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Anti-Natalism: Rejectionist Philosophy from Buddhism to Benatar
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
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