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Posthumous People: Vienna at the Turning Point (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
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Posthumous People: Vienna at the Turning Point (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) Hardcover - 1996

by Cacciari, Massimo

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Stanford University Press, 12/1/1996 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Very Good. 0.7992 8.8386 5.7598.
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  • Title Posthumous People: Vienna at the Turning Point (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
  • Author Cacciari, Massimo
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 236
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
  • Date 12/1/1996 12:00:01 A
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0003231930
  • ISBN 9780804727099 / 0804727090
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.84 x 5.76 x 0.8 in (22.45 x 14.63 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects Vienna (Austria) - Social life and customs, Vienna (Austria) - Intellectual life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96014952
  • Dewey Decimal Code 943.613

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From the rear cover

Friedrich Nietzsche 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 capital 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.

About the author

Massimo Cacciari is the Mayor of Venice.