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Published by the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities

Nietzsche and"An Architecture of Our Minds"Edited by Alexandre Kostkaand Irving Wohlfarth

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Contents

ix ForewordRolfBothe

1 IntroductionTilmann Buddensieg

Part I: The Metaphors of Architecture19 Architecture in the Discourse of Modern Philosophy:

Descartes to NietzscheClaudia Brodsky Lacour

35 Nietzsche's Labyrinths: Variations on an Ancient ThemeKarsten Harries

53 The Mask and the Labyrinth: Nietzsche and the(Uncanny) Space of DecadenceAnthony Vidler

Part IE: Between Art, Literature, and Architecture67 Poets Are Always Producing Chaos: Nietzsche, Klimt, and

Turn-of-the-Century ViennaWerner Hofmann

91 The Function of Nietzsche's Thought in de Chirico's ArtPaolo Baldacci

115 Architecture as the Dionysian-Apollonian Process of DadaHanne Bergius

141 "Construction Has the Role of the Subconscious":Phantasmagorias of the Master Builder (with ConstantReference to Giedion, Weber, Nietzsche, Ibsen, and Benjamin)Irving Wohlfarth

199 Architecture of the "New Man": Nietzsche, Kessler, Beuys

Alexandre Kostka

233 Van de Velde and Nietzsche; or, The Search for a

New Architectural Style for the Man of the FutureLeon Ploegaerts

Part ffl: Nietzsche and the Architects259 Architecture as Empty Form: Nietzsche and the Art of Building

Tilmann Buddensieg

285 Nietzsche and Modern Architecture

Fritz Neumeyer

311 Le Corbusier's Nietzschean MetaphorsJean-Louis Cohen

333 Appendix: Metamorphoses of a Concept

347 Biographical Notes on the Authors

350 Index