Escape from the 19th Century and Other Essays

by Peter Lamborn Wilson

Literary Nonfiction. ESCAPE FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY is a group of essays by cultural critic Peter Lamborn Wilson and tackles the notion of modern Did the Nineteenth Century ever come to an end? Was the "Twentieth" Century just a rerun? And what about the Twenty-First Century, the New Millennium? Another lackluster confirmation of the Eternal Return? Another garden of secondhand time? If to know "History" as tragedy is to escape its repetition as farce, then perhaps we need to look more deeply at this Past that won't stop haunting us. Two illuminated madmen—Charles Fourier and Friedrich Nietzsche—and two too-sane geniuses—J.P. Proudhon and Karl Marx—are enlisted in the breakout plan.

Genres: Philosophy, History

206 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1998

About the author

Peter Lamborn Wilson also writes under the pseudonym Hakim Bey.

Reviews

[LustHeroin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nitzschean's Putch. First part of book literally UK "dreadnout" and "unga-bunga" same roots in text that showed in live perfomance about uk dreadnout

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

While not my favorite, Escape is wonderfully entertaining and includes an elaborate historical hoax that is well-contrived and loosely based on Gabrielle D'Annunzio's real-life adventures.