Alice Lagaay is professor of media theory and performative studies in the design department of HAW Hamburg at University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. She is a founding member and core convener of the international performance philosophy network. Besides her interest in Friedlaender/Mynona and the concept of creative indifference, her most recent work has focused on speculative design research and on non-standard formats for generating and communicating philosophical content.Detlef Thiel is an independent philosopher who lives and works in Wiesbaden, Germany. He has held lectureships in philosophy at Trier University and Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. Editorial activities include Collected Works of Friedlaender/Mynona, Friedlaender/Mynona Studies, Friedlaender/Mynona and Paul Scheerbart in Japanese translation, unknown texts by Paul Scheerbart; books on Jacques Derrida, Plato, Friedlaender/Mynona.; numerous essays and reviews in philosophy.

This volume presents an impressively edited selection of the entire range of Friedlaender/Mynona’s writings. Such a careful English translation should find an audience well beyond those already fascinated by F/M’s wonderfully refreshing philosophical and literary work. Lagaay and Thiel effectively convey the lively, engaging, and provocative quality of F/M’s writings.

• AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsPart I: Keys to the Open Trove: Introducing Salomo Friedlaender/MynonaSelf-portrait, Salomo Friedlaender/MynonaFriedlaender/Mynona’s Performative Philosophy: A Short Introduction, Alice LagaayThe Indifferentism of Polar Performance, Detlef ThielPart II: Which Knot Should We Use to Hold Him, the Old Shape-Shifting Proteus? Philosophical and Grotesque PiecesThe 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 MarcusPreambleTreatise 1 (First Part)Sketches: Ethics; Individual; Value; ColourAphorisms (Select Aphorisms)Part IV: Through the Magical I: Later Writings in ExileThe 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 LettersTo 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 MaterialsOn Ernst Marcus’ Eccentric Sensation (Exzentrische Empfindung), Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona and Upton Sinclair: Christoph Keller and Detlef Thiel in ConversationBiobibliography of Salomo Friedlaender/MynonaBibliographyCreditsAbout the TranslatorsIndex

Alice Lagaay is professor of media theory and performative studies in the design department of HAW Hamburg at University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. She is a founding member and core convener of the international performance philosophy network. Besides her interest in Friedlaender/Mynona and the concept of creative indifference, her most recent work has focused on speculative design research and on non-standard formats for generating and communicating philosophical content.Detlef Thiel is an independent philosopher who lives and works in Wiesbaden, Germany. He has held lectureships in philosophy at Trier University and Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. Editorial activities include Collected Works of Friedlaender/Mynona, Friedlaender/Mynona Studies, Friedlaender/Mynona and Paul Scheerbart in Japanese translation, unknown texts by Paul Scheerbart; books on Jacques Derrida, Plato, Friedlaender/Mynona.; numerous essays and reviews in philosophy.

This volume presents an impressively edited selection of the entire range of Friedlaender/Mynona’s writings. Such a careful English translation should find an audience well beyond those already fascinated by F/M’s wonderfully refreshing philosophical and literary work. Lagaay and Thiel effectively convey the lively, engaging, and provocative quality of F/M’s writings.

• AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsPart I: Keys to the Open Trove: Introducing Salomo Friedlaender/MynonaSelf-portrait, Salomo Friedlaender/MynonaFriedlaender/Mynona’s Performative Philosophy: A Short Introduction, Alice LagaayThe Indifferentism of Polar Performance, Detlef ThielPart II: Which Knot Should We Use to Hold Him, the Old Shape-Shifting Proteus? Philosophical and Grotesque PiecesThe 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 MarcusPreambleTreatise 1 (First Part)Sketches: Ethics; Individual; Value; ColourAphorisms (Select Aphorisms)Part IV: Through the Magical I: Later Writings in ExileThe 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 LettersTo 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 MaterialsOn Ernst Marcus’ Eccentric Sensation (Exzentrische Empfindung), Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona and Upton Sinclair: Christoph Keller and Detlef Thiel in ConversationBiobibliography of Salomo Friedlaender/MynonaBibliographyCreditsAbout the TranslatorsIndex

Alice Lagaay is professor of media theory and performative studies in the design department of HAW Hamburg at University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. She is a founding member and core convener of the international performance philosophy network. Besides her interest in Friedlaender/Mynona and the concept of creative indifference, her most recent work has focused on speculative design research and on non-standard formats for generating and communicating philosophical content.Detlef Thiel is an independent philosopher who lives and works in Wiesbaden, Germany. He has held lectureships in philosophy at Trier University and Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. Editorial activities include Collected Works of Friedlaender/Mynona, Friedlaender/Mynona Studies, Friedlaender/Mynona and Paul Scheerbart in Japanese translation, unknown texts by Paul Scheerbart; books on Jacques Derrida, Plato, Friedlaender/Mynona.; numerous essays and reviews in philosophy.

This volume presents an impressively edited selection of the entire range of Friedlaender/Mynona’s writings. Such a careful English translation should find an audience well beyond those already fascinated by F/M’s wonderfully refreshing philosophical and literary work. Lagaay and Thiel effectively convey the lively, engaging, and provocative quality of F/M’s writings.

• AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsPart I: Keys to the Open Trove: Introducing Salomo Friedlaender/MynonaSelf-portrait, Salomo Friedlaender/MynonaFriedlaender/Mynona’s Performative Philosophy: A Short Introduction, Alice LagaayThe Indifferentism of Polar Performance, Detlef ThielPart II: Which Knot Should We Use to Hold Him, the Old Shape-Shifting Proteus? Philosophical and Grotesque PiecesThe 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 MarcusPreambleTreatise 1 (First Part)Sketches: Ethics; Individual; Value; ColourAphorisms (Select Aphorisms)Part IV: Through the Magical I: Later Writings in ExileThe 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 LettersTo 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 MaterialsOn Ernst Marcus’ Eccentric Sensation (Exzentrische Empfindung), Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona and Upton Sinclair: Christoph Keller and Detlef Thiel in ConversationBiobibliography of Salomo Friedlaender/MynonaBibliographyCreditsAbout the TranslatorsIndex