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Much as Oswald Spengler had elevated the brooding schwarmerei of German café philosophers into a treatise, so Jünger took the rote form of the regimental memoir and affixed a bayonet to it.
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Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
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Etymology
German Schwärmerei, from schwärmen to be enthusiastic, literally, to swarm
First Known Use
1845, in the meaning defined above
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“Schwarmerei.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schwarmerei. Accessed 29 Mar. 2023.
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