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• Preface
• Introduction: Massimo Cacciari's Genealogy of Europe
• Alessandro Carrera
• Part I: Thinking Europe
• 1. Thinking Europe
• 2. Europeanism
• 3. Two German Speeches:
• The "Second Thought"
• The Language of Europe
• 4. Europe or Philosophy
• 5. Europe or Christianity
• Part II: The Idea of Empire
• 6. What Is Empire?
• 7. The Myth of the Growing City
• 8. Digressions on Empire and the Three Romes
• 9. More on the Idea of Empire
• 10. Empire and Katechon: a Question of Political Theology
• (From Paul, 2 Thessalonians 2)
• Part III: Title TK
• 11. The Europe of Maria Zambrano
• 12. We Cannot Only Call Ourselves Judeo-Christians.
• A Conversation with Jacques Le Goff
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Articles Included in This Volume
• Works Cited
• Index of Names.
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The European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has known in the past thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis about its global role. The many European empires are now reduced to a multiplicity of ethnicities, traditions, and civilizations. Europe will never be One, but to survive as a union it will have to become a federation of "islands" both distinct and connected. Though drawing on philosophers of Europe's past, Cacciari calls not to resist Europe's sunset but to embrace it. Europe will have to open up to the possibility that in few generations new exiles and an unpredictable cultural hybridism will again change all we know about the European legacy. Though scarcely alive in today's politics, the political unity of Europe is still a necessity, however impossible it seems to achieve.
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La natura della libertà è in fondo la libertà della natura stessa, ossia la sua insopprimibile soggettività. Attorno a questa inestricabile relazione, illuminata e indagata a fondo dalla filosofia di Schelling, alcuni fra i più autorevoli interpreti contemporanei s'interrogano sull'impossibile sistema del sapere a cui il filosofo tedesco lavorò per tutta la vita, individuando proprio nella libertà quel fondamento necessario eppure apparentemente inattuabile. Il risultato è un quadro composito e aggiornato degli esiti in ambito teoretico, etico ed estetico della filosofia di Schelling, che oggi vive una rinascita di livello internazionale.

• Introduction: On Massimo Cacciari's disenchanted activism / Alessandro Carrera
• Impracticable utopias : Hofmannsthal, Lukács, Benjamin
• Nietzsche and the unpolitical
• Weber and the critique of socialist reason
• Project
• Catastrophes
• The language of power in Canetti : a scrutiny
• Law and justice : on the theological and mystical dimensions of the modern political
• The geophilosophy of Europe
• Weber and the politician as tragic hero.

Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date. This carefully curated collection includes chapters on Hofmannsthal, Lukacs, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Weber, Derrida, Schmitt, Canetti, and Aeschylus. Written between 1978 and 2006, these essays engagingly address the most hidden tradition in European political thought: the unpolitical. Far from being a refusal of politics, "The Unpolitical" represents a merciless critique of political reason and a way out of the now impracticable consolations of utopia and harmonious community. A lucid and engaging Introduction by Alessandro Carrera sets these essays in the context of Cacciari's work generally and in the broadest context of its historical and geographical backdrop.
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• Translator's note-- Introduction: the view from Steinhof--
• 1. Posthumous people--
• 2. Sprachliches--
• 3. Inquietum cor nostrum--
• 4. The new domain of Trauerspiel--
• 5. A critique of the modern--
• 6. The impossiblity of the tragic--
• 7. Visit the Serraglio!--
• 8. Music, voice, text--
• 9. Wonders and marvels--
• 10. The misfit--
• 11. Acheronta movebo--
• 12. The private Adolf Loos--
• 13. Lou's buttons--
• 14. The glass chain--
• 15. Invalid des Todes--
• 16. On the mystical again--
• 17. Abendland--
• 18. On cliffs and swamps--
• 19. Centaurs--
• 20. Weibliches--
• 21. The eternal child--
• 22. Songs of the departed--
• 23. The art of archery--
• 24. A dark alley in the old city--
• 25. The star of narration--
• 26. Kraus's ideogram--
• 27. Profane attention.
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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 much alive, we posthumous people! Cacciari isolates Vienna as the European capitol of posthumous people at a crucial turning point in Western thinking, as the nineteenth century ended. There he finds Ludwig Wittgenstein, together with Peter Altenberg, Robert Walser, Lou Andreas-SalomZ, Adolf Loos, Martin Buber, Egon Schiele, Karl Kraus, Gustav Klimt, and many others. Cacciari treats this extraordinarily rich concentration of activity as the hub upon which European culture wheeled into the twentieth century. He reaches directly to the intellectual content in each of the various figures he discusses.
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A social and philosophical account of the 20th century metropolis. This text studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society.
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• Grandezza e tramonto dell'utopia / Massimo Cacciari
• Profezia, utopia, democrazia / Paolo Prodi.

• Verso Prometeo, frammenti di diari / Luigi Nono
• Verso Prometeo, tragedia dell'ascolto / Massimo Cacciari
• Verso Prometeo, conversazione tra Luigi Nono e Massimo Cacciari / raccolta da Michele Bertaggia
• La tecnica del "live-electronic" all Studio Sperimentale di Friburgo / Hans Peter Haller
• Interazioni con il mezzo elettronico / Alvise Vidolin
• Prometo : uno spazio per la musica / Renzo Piano
• Prometeo / Massimo Cacciari.

• Nihilismo e festività del simbolo della croce : Hegel verso Nietzsche / di M. Bertaggia
• Concetto e simboli dell'eterno ritorno / di M. Cacciari
• Nietzsche : tempo sacro, tempo del gioco nel pensiero dell'eterno ritorno / di G. Franck
• Nietzsche, o dell'ermeneutica interminabile / di Giangiorgio Pasqualotto.