Foreword / Rolf Bothe -- Introduction / Tilmann Buddensieg -- Pt. I. The Metaphors of Architecture -- Architecture in the Discourse of Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Nietzsche / Claudia Brodsky Lacour -- Nietzsche's Labyrinths: Variations on an Ancient Theme / Karsten Harries -- The Mask and the Labyrinth: Nietzsche and the (Uncanny) Space of Decadence / Anthony Vidler -- Pt. II. Between Art, Literature, and Architecture -- Poets Are Always Producing Chaos: Nietzsche, Klimt, and Turn-of-the-Century Vienna / Werner Hofmann -- The Function of Nietzsche's Thought in de Chirico's Art / Paolo Baldacci -- Architecture as the Dionysian-Apollonian Process of Dada / Hanne Bergius -- "Construction Has the Role of the Subconscious": Phantasmagorias of the Master Builder (with Constant Reference to Giedion, Weber, Nietzsche, Ibsen, and Benjamin) / Irving Wohlfarth -- Architecture of the "New Man": Nietzsche, Kessler, Beuys / Alexandre Kostka -- Van de Velde and Nietzsche; or, The Search for a New Architectural Style for the Man of the Future / Leon Ploegaerts -- Pt. III. Nietzsche and the Architects -- Architecture as Empty Form: Nietzsche and the Art of Building / Tilmann Buddensieg -- Nietzsche and Modern Architecture / Fritz Neumeyer -- Le Corbusier's Nietzschean Metaphors / Jean-Louis Cohen -- App. Metamorphoses of a Concept
Summary
"Nietzsche and "An Architecture of Our Minds" focuses on his seminal ideas about architecture, both actual and metaphorical, and the creative responses they elicited. In this volume, twelve contributors from a variety of disciplines provide fresh readings of the scattered, aphoristic fragments that Nietzsche devoted to the art of building and consider their impact on artists, writers, and architects."--BOOK JACKET
Notes
Symposium title: Abbau, Neubau, Überbau
Symposium title: Nietzsche und "eine Architektur unserer Seelen-Art"
"This volume ... evolved from a symposium titled 'Abbau, Neubau, Überbau: Nietzsche und 'eine Architektur nach unserer Seelen-Art,' which was held at the Hotel Elephant and the Residenzschloss in Weimar, Germany, 11-13 October 1994--T.p. verso