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Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona (1871-1946) was a prominent, eccentric and influential figure in late Imperial Germany, Expressionism, Dadaism, and the Weimar Republic who wrote and published works of philosophy, novels, parodies and satirical so called grotesque tales which he wrote under the pseudonym Mynona - the German word for anonymous, anonym, spelt backwards. After fleeing the rise of Nazism, Friedlaender/Mynona died in Paris in obscurity. Friedlaender/Mynona is currently in the process of being re-discovered in his native language, however little of his work generally, and none of the philosophical texts, have been translated.
The is the first ever book-length publication in English introducing the philosophical works. It includes three introductory framing chapters explaining the historical context, contemporary relevance and pertinence to performance philosophy of Friedlaender/Mynona; it contains original translations of select passages from his most significant philosophical texts (especially Schöpferische Indifferenz/Creative Indifference, first published in 1918), the later Das magische Ich/The Magic I (1935) and the very last essay Ideenmagie/Idea Magic (1945/46) as well as translations of select letters from his life-time of extensive correspondence to and from well-known cultural personalities of the time.
Not only recognised as having inspired Walter Benjamin, and thus arguably an important contributor to the tradition of critical theory to which Benjamin belongs, Friedlaender/Mynona can be counted as forerunner of both performance philosophy and gender theory, and as a major influence in the development of Gestalt therapy. Furthermore, not only did Friedlaender/Mynona belong to the first generation of avid Nietzsche readers, over the course of his life he remained a tireless interpreter of Immanuel Kant. His extraordinary voice is of significant interest to Nietzsche and Kant Studies and sheds light on their respective relevance for a performance-oriented approach to philosophy.
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Part I: Keys to the Open Trove: Introducing Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona
Self-portrait, Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona
Friedlaender/Mynona's Performative Philosophy: A Short Introduction, Alice Lagaay
The Indifferentism of Polar Performance, Detlef Thiel
Part II: Which Knot Should We Use to Hold Him, the Old Shape-Shifting Proteus? Philosophical and Grotesque Pieces
The Wooer of Truth (1903)
Four Texts on Theatre (1909-1901)
Friedrich Nietzsche: An Intellectual Biography; Chapter VI: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1911)
Marionettes, Humans and Gods: On the Centenary of Heinrich von Kleist's Death (1911)
Aerosophy (1911)
Polarity: A Philosophical Lecture (1912)
Carnival of Logic (1912)
Towards a Profane Theology (1913)
A Child's Heroic Deed (1913)
Presentism (1913)
The Middle between Extremes: Preventing a Misunderstanding (1913)
Idea for a Telehaptor (1913)
Once More: Polarity, or the Essence of Difference (1915)
Trenko patrollo (sonnet, 1918)
Part III: The Cult, Yet Largely Unread, Book: Creative Indifference (1918/1926, excerpts)
Preface to the Second Edition in Avowal of Allegiance to Immanuel Kant and Ernst Marcus
Preamble
Treatise 1 (First Part)
Sketches: Ethics; Individual; Value; Colour
Aphorisms (Select Aphorisms)
Part IV: Through the Magical I: Later Writings in Exile
The Flight of Love (1919)
Grotesque (1919)
The Antichrist and Ernst Bloch (1920)
The Star Festival (1922)
George Grosz (1922, selections)
On the Occasion of Mynona's Hundredth Birthday (1928)
Why did the Colour Teacher Goethe Discard the Colour Theory of the Goethean Schopenhauer? (1932)
On Immortality: A conversation between an empiricist and the deceased Old-Kantian Ernst Marcus (1933)
On World Ether: According to Immanuel Kant and Ernst Marcus (1934)
The Laughing Job (1935)
Spengler's Death (1936)
The Magical I: Elements of Critical Polarism (1935, excerpts)
Idea Magic (1945, excerpts)
Library (sonnet, 1943)
Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism (1946)
Part V: The Air I Breathe: A Selection of Letters
To Paul Scheerbart (19 May 1904)
To Martin Buber (2 August 1908)
To Georg von Lukács (12 July 1911)
To Hannah Höch & Tilit Brugman (1924-30)
To Eduard W. Tieffenbach (20 September 1933)
To Leo Ragolsky (13 April 1935)
To Doris Hahn (14 June 1935)
To Alfred Kubin (10 April 1936)
To Anselm Ruest (13 September 1943)
Part VI: Tool Chest of Reference Materials
On Ernst Marcus' Eccentric Sensation (Exzentrische Empfindung), Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona and Upton Sinclair:
Christoph Keller and Detlef Thiel in Conversation
Biobibliography of Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona
Bibliography
Credits
About the Translators
Index
