Escape from the 19th Century and Other Essays - Softcover

Wilson, Peter Lamborn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570270732 ISBN 13: 9781570270734

Publisher: Autonomedia, 1998

Synopsis

Did the nineteenth century ever come to an end? Was the twentieth century just a re-run? If to know “History” as tragedy is to escape its repetition as farce, then perhaps we need to look more deeply at this Past that won’t stop haunting us. Two illuminated madmen—Charles Fourier and Friedrich Nietzsche—and two too-sane geniuses—J.-P. Proudhon and Karl Marx—are enlisted in the break-out plan. The shape of this plan is then suggested in a final essay showing how old “rights and customs” of paleolithic reciprocity and eqalitarian spirituality have made innumerable re-entries into History.

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About the Author:

Peter Lamborn Wilson is co-author of Green Hermeticism: Alchemy and Ecology (Lindisfarne Books, 2007); and author of ESCAPE FOR THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND OTHER ESSAYS: FOURIER, MARX PROUDHOM AND NIETZSCHE (Autonomedia, 1998), plus numerous other books and essays. He is a longtime member of the Autonomedia Collective and lives in the Hudson Valley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Autonomedia
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1570270732
• ISBN 13: 9781570270734
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206