Posthumous People

Vienna at the Turning Point

By:

Massimo Cacciari

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Hardback

Series:

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

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Friedrich Neitzsche imagined himself belonging to a society of visionaries, thinkers, architects, poets, musicians, and artists running ahead of the mainstream. They were condemned to be misunderstood or ignored in the present, but their work would become significant in the future. To them he addressed the aphorism from which Massimo Cacciari s book takes its name, saying It is only after death that we will enter our life and come alive, oh, very much alive, we posthumous people! Cacciari isolates Vienna as the European capitol of posthumous people at a crucial turning point in Western thinking, as the nineteenth century ended. There he finds Ludwig Wittgenstein, together with Peter Altenberg, Robert Walser, Lou Andreas-SalomZ, Adolf Loos, Martin Buber, Egon Schiele, Karl Kraus, Gustav Klimt, and many others. Cacciari treats this extraordinarily rich concentration of activity as the hub upon which European culture wheeled into the twentieth century. He reaches directly to the intellectual content in each of the various figures he discusses.

Author Biography:

Massimo Cacciari is the Mayor of Venice.

Release date Australia

December 1st, 1996

Author

Massimo Cacciari

Series

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Contributor

Translated by Rodger Friedman

Pages

236

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

ISBN-13

9780804727099

Product ID

27155009

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