CONTENTS Foreword RolfBothe ix Introduction 1 Tiltnann Buddensieg Part I: The Metaphors of Architecture Architecture in the Discourse of Modern Philosophy : Descartes to Nietzsche 19 Claudia Brodsky Lacour Nietzsche's Labyrinths : Variations on an Ancient 35 Theme Karsten Harries The Mask and the Labyrinth: Nietzsche and the (Uncanny) Space of Decadence 53 Anthony Vidler Part II: Between Art, Literature, and Architecture Poets Are Always Producing Chaos: Nietzsche, Klimt, and Turn-of-the-Century Vienna 67 Werner Hofmann The Function of Nietzsche's Thought in de Chirico's Art 91 Paolo Baldacci Architecture as the Dionysian-Apollonian Process of Dada 115 Hanne Bergius Construction Has the Role of the Subconscious : Phantasmagorias of the Master Builder (with Constant Reference to Giedion, Weber, Nietzsche, Ibsen, and Benjamin) 141 Irving Wohlfarth Architecture of the New Man: Nietzsche, Kessler, Beuys 199 Alexandre Kostka Van de Velde and Nietzsche; or, The Search for a New Architectural Style for the Man of the Future 233 Lion Ploegaerts Part III: Nietzsche and the Architects Architecture as Empty Form: Nietzsche and the Art of Building 259 Tilmann Buddensieg Nietzsche and Modern Architecture 285 Fritz Neumeyer Le Corbusier's Nietzschean Metaphors 311 Jean-Louis Cohen Appendix: Metamorphoses of a Concept 333 Biographical Notes on the Authors 347 Index 350