Afterness
Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics
Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of afterness is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean for something to follow something else? Does that which follows mark a clear break with what came before it, or does it in fact tacitly perpetuate its predecessor as a consequence of its inevitable indebtedness to the terms and conditions of that from which it claims to have departed? Indeed, is not the very act of breaking with, and then following upon, a way of retroactively constructing and fortifying that from which the break that set the movement of followi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-231-15770-4
- EAN: 9780231157704
- Produktnummer: 11439628
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.3 cm 514 g
- Abbildungen: 2 illus.
- Gewicht: 514
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Gerhard Richter is professor of German studies and comparative literature and chair of the Department of German Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life; Asthetik des Ereignisses: Sprache--Geschichte--Medium; and Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography. He is also the editor of five additional books in the area of European critical thought, including Language Without Soil: Adorno and Late Philosophical Modernity.
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