The Union Forever: A TL
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It's good to see that Wilson turned out pretty well ITTL, IMHO he had absolutely no business being the President...hell, we share the same state and I don't like him
yeah, there wasn't a lot of outcry over Wilson not being a large figure in TUF.
Profile: Louis Brandeis
Ask and you shall recieve
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Louis Brandeis (1856-1942)
Born in Louisville, Kentucky to Jewish parents from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Louis Brandeis attended Yale Law School before moving to Illinois to find work. While practicing law in Chicago, Brandeis became a close associate of future president Robert Todd Lincoln. After winning the presidency in 1900, Lincoln nominated Brandeis to serve as ambassador to Austria-Hungary. Fluent in German, in 1906 Brandeis was nominated to be the ambassador to Prussia which was seen as a more prestigious post. Throughout the Great War Brandeis would be a central figure in coordinating the war effort of American forces in Prussia. Even after the creation of the Federal Kingdom of Germany, Brandeis would remain in Berlin as ambassador until Harold Abercrombie, a Democrat, was elected president in 1924. Returning to the United States, Brandeis would become a prolific writer often pushing the European powers for further democratic reform and decolonization. Brandeis died in 1942 at the age of 85.
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Profile: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1866)
Born near Leipzig in Saxony, Friedrich Nietzsche attended Bonn University where he studied theology. Nietzsche is said to have increasingly questioned his faith in the months before he was called up to serve in the Prussian Army during the 1866 Austro-Prussian War. At the battle of Sobotka in Austria, Nietzsche was killed by a rifle bullet to the head. History remembers Nietzsche mostly for his last words “If there is a God may he strike me dead now” which were uttered only seconds before his death. Today, the term Nietzsche is used as a synonym for irony.
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"How very Nietzscheic of you"
"Oh, the Nietzsche"
"That's just Nietzscheic"
That's just awesome.;
"Oh, the Nietzsche"
"That's just Nietzscheic"
That's just awesome.;
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Donor
As famous last words go, that almost beats "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." Now I've got Alanis Morissette stuck in my head singing "Isn't it Nietzschean… don't you think…"
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Donor
Wait What? You just killed modern Philosophy! Now we have to sit through another fifty years of Kantian crap and empty Dogma. If you remove him you change a great deal.The People of the Union Forever
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1866)
Born near Leipzig in Saxony, Friedrich Nietzsche attended Bonn University where he studied theology. Nietzsche is said to have increasingly questioned his faith in the months before he was called up to serve in the Prussian Army during the 1866 Austro-Prussian War. At the battle of Sobotka in Austria, Nietzsche was killed by a rifle bullet to the head. History remembers Nietzsche mostly for his last words “If there is a God may he strike me dead now” which were uttered only seconds before his death. Today, the term Nietzsche is used as a synonym for irony.
"Nietzsche's thought extended a deep influence during the 20th century, especially in Continental Europe. In English-speaking countries, his positive reception has been less resonant. During the last decade of Nietzsche's life and the first decade of the 20th century, his thought was particularly attractive to avant-garde artists who saw themselves on the periphery of established social fashion and practice. Here, Nietzsche's advocacy of new, healthy beginnings, and of creative artistry in general stood forth. His tendency to seek explanations for commonly-accepted values and outlooks in the less-elevated realms of sheer animal instinct was also crucial to Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis. Later, during the 1930's, aspects of Nietzsche's thought were espoused by the Nazis and Italian Fascists, partly due to the encouragement of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche through her associations with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. It was possible for the Nazi interpreters to assemble, quite selectively, various passages from Nietzsche's writings whose juxtaposition appeared to justify war, aggression and domination for the sake of nationalistic and racial self-glorification.
Until the 1960s in France, Nietzsche appealed mainly to writers and artists, since the academic philosophical climate was dominated by G.W.F. Hegel's, Edmund Husserl's and Martin Heidegger's thought, along with the structuralist movement of the 1950's. Nietzsche became especially influential in French philosophical circles during the 1960's-1980's, when his “God is dead” declaration, his perspectivism, and his emphasis upon power as the real motivator and explanation for people's actions revealed new ways to challenge established authority and launch effective social critique. In the English-speaking world, Nietzsche's unfortunate association with the Nazis kept him from serious philosophical consideration until the 1950's and 60's, when landmark works such as Walter Kaufmann's, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1950) and Arthur C. Danto's, Nietzsche as Philosopher (1965), paved the way for a more open-minded discussion.
Specific 20th century figures who were influenced, either quite substantially, or in a significant part, by Nietzsche include painters, dancers, musicians, playwrights, poets, novelists, psychologists, sociologists, literary theorists, historians, and philosophers: Alfred Adler, Georges Bataille, Martin Buber, Albert Camus, E.M. Cioran, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Isadora Duncan, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Stefan George, André Gide, Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung, Martin Heidegger, Gustav Mahler, André Malraux, Thomas Mann, H.L. Mencken, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Paul Sartre, Max Scheler, Giovanni Segantini, George Bernard Shaw, Lev Shestov, Georg Simmel, Oswald Spengler, Richard Strauss, Paul Tillich, Ferdinand Tönnies, Mary Wigman, William Butler Yeats and Stefan Zweig."
-Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Fredrick Nietzsche
Well I tried. Can you horrify me with the fates of John Dewey, William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce? Keep up the good work.
I wouldn't worry about it. Someone else could very easily have similar ideas as Nietzsche, which then catch on in some way. How much it influences modern philosophy is up in the air.
Wow, thanks for the information. Personally I'm not a big fan of modern and post modern philosophy so I don't see it as a huge loss, but don't worry just because Nietzsche isn't around doesn't mean other people wouldn't come up with similar ideas. Cheers!
If you are doing requests whatever happened to William Randolph Hearst in this TL? His father and mother have already met but weren't married before the PoD. It would be interesting to see if William weren't a single child and didn't have his mother so clingy therefore not give him the ego the size of a mountain.
All good suggestions. Tesla is next. A question for the thread do ya'll want me to keep doing these updates on OTL individuals or post the next update from the 1940's and save them for later?
Profile: Nikola Tesla
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Nikola Tesla (1856-1942)
Nikola Tesla was born in the small village of Smiljan in the Austrian Empire to Serbian parents. At the age of 19 Tesla attended the Austrian Polytechnic where he studied electrical engineering. Over the next twenty years Tesla would work at a variety of jobs in both Austria and France. In 1895 Tesla immigrated to the United States after refusing to become a weapons designer for the government of Napoleon III. Although not political himself, Tesla resented the heavy handed approach of the imperial French government in gearing all scientific development for belligerent purposes. In the years before and during the Great War, Tesla rendered invaluable service to the administration of Robert T. Lincoln by helping design and implement plans for electrification of America’s rural regions. After the war, Tesla moved to his ancestral homeland in the Kingdom of Serbia. There he continued his electrical research and was instrumental in helping Serbia recover from the devastation of the Great War. On 10 November, 1942 Tesla died of a heart attack in his laboratory in Belgrade. Today, Tesla is remembered as a brilliant scientist and inventor and is considered a national hero in his adopted country of Serbia.
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This is a Utopic timeline since TTL's version of Wikipedia won't have edit wars as to whether he is Croatian or Serbian...
I concur; very nice update! Does this mean Tesla gets any more funding/recognition for his, erm, more interesting projects? I can only imagine what his "teleforce" theory (assuming its possibility) could lead to in technological innovation....