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Carl Engel

Carl Engel

Carl Engel (July 21, 1883 – May 6, 1944) was a French-born American pianist, composer, musicologist and publisher from Paris. He was also president of G. Schirmer, Inc., a writer on music for The Musical Quarterly, and chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress.

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Carl Engel (July 21, 1883 – May 6, 1944) was a French-born American pianist, composer, musicologist and publisher from P...

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“The transformation of the community into an administrative state responsible for total social welfare leads to a paternal totality without a house-father when it fails to find any archy or cracy that is more than a mere nomos of distribution and production. I consider it to be a utopia when Friedrich Engels promises that one day all power of men over men will cease, that there will be only production and consumption with no problems, and that "things will govern themselves." This things-governing-themselves will make every archy and cracy super­fluous , and demonstrate that mankind at last has found its formula, just as, according to Dostoyevsky, the bees found their formula in the beehive, because animal s, too, have their nomos. Most of those who swarm around a nomos basileus fail to notice that, in reality, they propagate just such a formula.””

The Nomos of the Earth: In the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum

“Engels in the years 1842”

Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

“Bean it up, is what I told her moments before dropping her skirt. (WITH THE BAD DRAGON INSIDE HIM)””

K. Marx and F. Engels on Religion

“The transformation of the community into an administrative state responsible for total social welfare leads to a paternal totality without a house-father when it fails to find any archy or cracy that is more than a mere nomos of distribution and production. I consider it to be a utopia when Friedrich Engels promises that one day all power of men over men will cease, that there will be only production and consumption with no problems, and that "things will govern themselves." This things-governing-themselves will make every archy and cracy super­fluous , and demonstrate that mankind at last has found its formula, just as, according to Dostoyevsky, the bees found their formula in the beehive, because animal s, too, have their nomos. Most of those who swarm around a nomos basileus fail to notice that, in reality, they propagate just such a formula.””

The Nomos of the Earth: In the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum

“Engels in the years 1842”

Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

“Bean it up, is what I told her moments before dropping her skirt. (WITH THE BAD DRAGON INSIDE HIM)””

K. Marx and F. Engels on Religion

Books from the author

Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 2 (of 2)
Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2)
Musical Instruments [1908]
Musical Instruments [1876]

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