Persuasion and Rhetoric - Hardcover

Michelstaedter, Carlo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1869140915 ISBN 13: 9781869140915

Verlag: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008

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"Like his contemporaries Otto Weininger and Franz Kafka, Carlo Michelstaedter was an intriguing ' double' minority figure in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His one short book remains an extraordinary document of the early twentieth-century, offering a summa of many spiritual currents issuing into German and Austrian expressionism. It is essential reading for anyone interested in modern European literature and philosophy."-- Thomas Harrison, author of 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance "Michelstaedter's book is a still undervalued masterpiece of the XIXth century."-- Umberto Eco

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Carlo Michelstaedter (1887-1910) committed suicide at the age of 23, days after completing this devastating treatise on the human condition and the course of Western civilisation. This work was deemed to be so radically nihilistic, or so radically idealistic, that publishers shied away from it for decades. This new English translation brings to life the heartfelt text of the precocious Italian-Jewish writer, poet and painter, who - refusing to compromise with life - remained loyal to his ideal of a perfect world. Keenly aware of the inevitable catastrophe that the values of his time held in store for humanity, Carlo Michelstaedter, with ""Persuasion and Rhetoric"", also provides a pithy - albeit idiosyncratic - synthesis of the major currents of philosophical thought that held sway at the beginning of the twentieth century. Its searing honesty and mordant critique have lost none of their immediacy, almost a century after the work was completed as a university thesis. The reader is challenged to re-examine the dull norms, conventions and patterns of thought all too readily adopted as humanity willingly, pathetically, courts its own demise. And yet, amidst this gloomy vision, Michelstaedter forces the reader to re-appraise the here-and-now, to summon the courage to live 'a life worthy of being lived'.

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• Verlag: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1869140915
• ISBN 13: 9781869140915
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154