Designing a Peaceful World in a Time of Conflict

Lobbes, Tessa

doi:10.1515/9783110434781-006

Utopia 2015

DOI: 10.1515/9783110434781-006

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Designing a Peaceful World in a Time of Conflict

Tessa Lobbes¹

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In search of an ardent neutrality. Dutch intellectuals, the Great War and the call for a cultural regeneration

Brolsma

2021

First World War Studies

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This article focuses on the works of two leading figures of the Dutch public and intellectual debate on the First World War: novelist and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden (1860Eeden ( -1932 and art critic Just Havelaar . Both Van Eeden and Havelaar reconciled a call for an ardent neutrality with an aversion to the violence of war and an understanding of the war as a kind of 'redemptive suffering' that would eventually bring about cultural regeneration in Europe. Their visions of a forceful neutrality that would allow the Dutch -while remaining neutral in the actual conflict -to benefit from and contribute to the alleged regenerative potential the war had so violently revealed were formulated in response to a negative vision of neutrality as a spineless, pusillanimous, and selfish stance and informed by Lebensphilosophie ('Philosophy of life'), a heterogeneous neoromantic school of thought that during the war served as an important intellectual source for cultural propaganda in the belligerent states. In this way, this article sheds light on a remarkable parallel between, on the one hand, the self-definitions of the Netherlands as a neutral nation put forward in Dutch public debate by cultural critics and, on the other hand, the war propaganda notion of the conflict as a 'cultural crusade' that held out the prospect of a rejuvenation of Europe's decayed and 'lifeless' civilization -an idea invoked by various German, French, and British intellectuals to legitimize their countries' war efforts.

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In search of an ardent neutrality. Dutch intellectuals, the Great War and the call for a cultural regeneration

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2021

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