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Minds
Nietzsche and
"An Architecture of Our Minds"
Edited by Alexandre Kostka
Published by the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
and Irving Wohlfarth

Issues S Debates
 Contents

ix Foreword
RolfBothe

1 Introduction
Tilmann Buddensieg

Part I: The Metaphors of Architecture

19 Architecture in the Discourse of Modern Philosophy:
Descartes to Nietzsche
Claudia Brodsky Lacour

35 Nietzsche's Labyrinths: Variations on an Ancient Theme

Karsten Harries

53 The Mask and the Labyrinth: Nietzsche and the

(Uncanny) Space of Decadence
Anthony Vidler

Part IE: Between Art, Literature, and Architecture

67 Poets Are Always Producing Chaos: Nietzsche, Klimt, and
Turn-of-the-Century Vienna
Werner Hofmann

91 The Function of Nietzsche's Thought in de Chirico's Art

Paolo Baldacci

115 Architecture as the Dionysian-Apollonian Process of Dada

Hanne Bergius

141 "Construction Has the Role of the Subconscious":

Phantasmagorias of the Master Builder (with Constant
Reference 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 Future
Leon Ploegaerts

Part ffl: Nietzsche and the Architects

259 Architecture as Empty Form: Nietzsche and the Art of Building
Tilmann Buddensieg

285 Nietzsche and Modern Architecture

Fritz Neumeyer

311 Le Corbusier's Nietzschean Metaphors

Jean-Louis Cohen

333 Appendix: Metamorphoses of a Concept

347 Biographical Notes on the Authors

350 Index