Posthumous People

Vienna at the Turning Point

By: Massimo Cacciari, Rodger Friedman (Translator)

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Hardcover | 1 December 1996

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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-Salom , 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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Translator's Note
Introduction: The View from Steinhof	p. 1
Posthumous People	p. 4
Sprachliches	p. 7
Inquietum Cor Nostrum	p. 12
The New Domain of Trauerspiel	p. 18
A Critique of the Modern	p. 26
The Impossibility of the Tragic	p. 33
Visit the Serraglio!	p. 38
Music, Voice, Text	p. 47
Wonders and Marvels	p. 57
The Misfit	p. 66
Acheronta Movebo	p. 71
The Private Adolf Loos	p. 77
Lou's Buttons	p. 81
The Glass Chain	p. 89
Invalid des Todes	p. 93
On the Mystical Again	p. 97
Abendland	p. 102
On Cliffs and Swamps	p. 109
Centaurs	p. 123
Weibliches	p. 127
The Eternal Child	p. 135
Songs of the Departed	p. 140
The Art of Archery	p. 157
A Dark Alley in the Old City	p. 170
The Star of Narration	p. 175
Kraus's Ideogram	p. 191
Profane Attention	p. 196
Notes	p. 209
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