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Massimo Cacciari
A provocative examination of the fate of autonomous, creative labor under capitalism.
Between 1917 and 1919, Max Weber delivered two lectures titled Die geistige Arbeit als Beruf, which we might…
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Massimo Cacciari, Matteo Mandarini
One of Italy's best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary political situation.
During the dramatic course of the twentieth century, amid the clash of the…
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(Ensemble). For Alto, Flute, Tuba, 6 Percussionists and Live Electronics.
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An analysis of the work of major cultural and philosophical figures in fin-de -siecle Vienna, starting from an examination of Wittgenstein’s struggle to carry philosophy beyond the barrier of language.
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Cacciari discusses Vienna at a crucial turning point in Western thinking, as the 19th century ended, treating this extraordinarily rich concentration of people and events as the hub upon which…
The author is one of the leading public intellectuals in today’s Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of…
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Assesses the current situation of Europe ten years after the adoption of the single currency. Examines the genealogy of the idea of Europe from the Greek confrontation with the Asia…
Cacciari, academic (aesthetics, U. of Venice) and mayor of Venice as of 1993, surveys the history of angels in Judaic, Islamic, and Christian traditions; and how Dante, Rilke, Kafka, and…
The first English translation of his work, The Withholding Power, offers a fascinating introduction to the thought of Italian philosopher Massimo Cacciari. Cacciari is a notoriously complex thinker but this…
Nine masterful essays on Dante’s Divine Comedy and his political theology by one of today’s leading Italian philosophers.
Slipcased in a giant K, this beautiful book looks at three treatments of Kafka by Martin Kippenberger, Orson Welles and Tangerine Dream
Gathering three works by Martin Kippenberger, Orson Welles…