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Posthumous People - Vienna at the Turning Point (Paperback)
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Posthumous People - Vienna at the Turning Point (Paperback)
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-Salome,
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.
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