Spelling Dictionary by Dorling Kindersley Publishing

Spelling Dictionary by Dorling Kindersley Publishing

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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ISBN 13	9780789496010
ISBN 10	0789496011
Title	Spelling Dictionary
Author	Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Series	Dk Pockets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dk Children
Year published	2003-07-21
Number of pages	432
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