Posthumous People: Vienna at the Turning Point

by Massimo Cacciari

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804727104
• ISBN13: 9780804727105
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"