The Critical Introduction to Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona
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The Critical Introduction to Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona

Twentieth-Century Performance Philosopher

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The Critical Introduction to Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona

Twentieth-Century Performance Philosopher

About this book

Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona (1871–1946) was a prominent, eccentric and influential figure in late Imperial Germany, Expressionism, Dadaism, and the Weimar Republic. He 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, spelled backwards. Currently being rediscovered in his native language, F/M and his work are still generally unknown, and none of his philosophical texts have been translated.

The Critical Introduction to Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona: Twentieth-Century Performance Philosopher is the first English book introducing F/M's philosophical works. The volume includes three introductory framing chapters of historical context, contemporary relevance and pertinence to the performance philosophy of F/M. The book also contains original translations of select passages from his most significant philosophical texts: Schöpferische Indifferenz/Creative Indifference, (first published in 1918), the later Das magische Ich/The Magic I (1935) and his very last essay Ideenmagie/Idea Magic (1945/46), as well as translations of select correspondence with well-known cultural personalities of the time.


Recognised as having inspired Walter Benjamin, F/M was also a forerunner of both performance philosophy and gender theory, and a major influence in the development of Gestalt therapy. Furthermore, not only did F/M belong to the first generation of avid Nietzsche readers, but he was also a lifelong tireless interpreter of Immanuel Kant and Schopenhauer. F/M's 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Abbreviations
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Part I: Keys to the Open Trove
  9. Chapter 1: Friedlaender/Mynona’s Self-portrait
  10. Chapter 2: Friedlaender/Mynona’s Performative Philosophy: A Short Introduction
  11. Chapter 3: The Indifferentism of Polar Performance
  12. Part II: Which Knot Should We Use to Hold Him, the Old Shape-Shifting Proteus?
  13. Chapter 4: The Wooer of Truth (1903)
  14. Chapter 5: Four Texts on Theatre (1909–11)
  15. Chapter 6: Friedrich Nietzsche: An Intellectual Biography Chapter VI: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1911)
  16. Chapter 7: Marionettes, Humans and Gods: On the Centenary of Heinrich von Kleist’s Death (1911)
  17. Chapter 8: Aerosophy (1911)
  18. Chapter 9: Polarity: Philosophical Lecture (1912)
  19. Chapter 10: The Carnival of Logic (1912)
  20. Chapter 11: Towards a Profane Theology (1913)
  21. Chapter 13: Presentism: Speech by the Earth Emperor to the People. Unless you Become Like Gods (1913)
  22. Chapter 14: The Middle between Extremes: Preventing a Misunderstanding (1913)
  23. Chapter 15: Idea for a Telehaptor (1913)
  24. Chapter 16: Once More: Polarity,: or the Essence of Difference (1915)
  25. Chapter 17: Trenko patrollo (sonnet, 1918)
  26. Part III: The Cult Book, Yet Largely Unread
  27. Chapter 18: Preface to the Second Edition: In Avowal of Allegiance to Immanuel Kant and Ernst Marcus
  28. Chapter 19: Preamble
  29. Chapter 20: Treatise 1 (First Part)
  30. Chapter 21: Sketches
  31. Chapter 22: Aphorisms (Excerpts)
  32. Part IV: Through the Magical I
  33. Chapter 23: The Flight of Love (1919)
  34. Chapter 24: Grotesque (1919)
  35. Chapter 25: The Antichrist and Ernst Bloch (1920)
  36. Chapter 26: The Star Festival (1922)
  37. Chapter 27: George Grosz (1922, selections)
  38. Chapter 28: On the Occasion of Mynona’s Hundredth Birthday (1928)
  39. Chapter 29: Why Did the Colour Teacher Goethe Discard the Colour Theory of the Goethean Schopenhauer? (1932)
  40. Chapter 30: On Immortality: A Conversation between an Empiricist and the Deceased Old-Kantian Ernst Marcus (1933)
  41. Chapter 31: On World Ether: According to Immanuel Kant and Ernst Marcus (1934)
  42. Chapter 32: The Laughing Job (1935)
  43. Chapter 33: Spengler’s Death (1936)
  44. Chapter 34: The Magical I: Elements of Critical Polarism (1935, Excerpts)
  45. Chapter 35: Idea Magic (1945, excerpts)
  46. Chapter 36: Library (sonnet, 1943)
  47. Chapter 37: Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism (1946)
  48. Part V: The Air I Breathe
  49. Chapter 38: To Paul Scheerbart (19th May 1904)
  50. Chapter 39: To Martin Buber (2nd August 1908)
  51. Chapter 40: To Georg von Lukács (12th July 1911)
  52. Chapter 41: To Hannah Höch and Tilit Brugman (1924–1930)
  53. Chapter 42: To Eduard W. Tieffenbach (20th September 1933)
  54. Chapter 43: To Leo Ragolsky (13th April 1935)
  55. Chapter 44: To Doris Hahn (14th June 1935)
  56. Chapter 45: To Alfred Kubin (10th April 1936)
  57. Chapter 46: To Anselm Ruest (13th September 1943)
  58. Part VI: Tool Chest of Reference Materials
  59. Chapter 47: On Ernst Marcus’ Eccentric Sensation (Exzentrische Empfindung), Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona and Upton Sinclair: Ch istoph Keller and Detlef Thiel in conversation
  60. Chapter 48: Biobibliography of Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona
  61. Bibliography
  62. Credits
  63. About the Translators
  64. About the Editors
  65. Index of Names
  66. Index of Terms