Inheriting Walter Benjamin

AvGerhard Richter,Andrew Benjamin

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance. Covering aspects of Benjamin’s complex relationship to the legacies of such writers as Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, and Derrida, each chapter attends to a key concern in Benjamin’s writing, while reflecting on the challenges that this issue presents for the question of inheritability and transmissibility. Both reading Benjamin and watching himself reading Benjamin, Richter participates in the act of inheriting while also inquiring into the conditions of possibility for inheriting Benjamin’s corpus today.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-25
Mått:136 x 214 x 14 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474251235

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Gerhard Richter is Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature and Chair of the German Studies Department at Brown University, USA. He is the author of five previous books in critical theory, including Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics (2011).

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Engaging and lucidly written, Inheriting Walter Benjamin offers new insights into some of Benjamin’s most important theoretical concerns. From inheritance to critique, from the work of art to the critical, dangerous moment of reading, Richter’s rhetorical close readings of key passages are one of the great strengths of this work.

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Acknowledgments1. Inheriting Benjamin Otherwise2. Erbsünde: A Note on Paradoxical Inheritance in Benjamin’s Kafka Essay3. Benjamin’s Blotting Paper: Writing and Erasing a Theological Figure of Thought4. Critique and the Thing: Benjamin and Heidegger5. The Work of Art and Its Formal and Genealogical Determinations: Benjamin’s “Cool Place” between Kant and Nietzsche6. Going with Time: A Miniature on Time and Photography after BenjaminBibliographyIndex

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