Posthumous People: Vienna at the Turning Point

Massimo Cacciari

ISBN 10: 0804727090 / ISBN 13: 9780804727099

Published by Stanford University Press December 1996, 1996

used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws. Seller Inventory # 1452670

Synopsis:

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-Salomé, 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.

About the Author: Massimo Cacciari is the Mayor of Venice.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Posthumous People: Vienna at the Turning ...
Publisher: Stanford University Press December 1996
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: VG
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good