Inheriting Walter Benjamin by Gerhard Richter (English) Paperback Book

Description: Inheriting Walter Benjamin by Gerhard Richter, Professor Gerhard Richter 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 Benjamins complex relationship to the legacies of such writers as Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, and Derrida, each chapter attends to a key concern in Benjamins 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 Benjamins corpus today. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Benjamins complex relationship to the legacies of such writers as Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, and Derrida, each chapter attends to a key concern in Benjamins 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 Benjamins corpus today. Author Biography 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). Table of Contents Acknowledgments1. Inheriting Benjamin Otherwise2. ErbsÜnde: A Note on Paradoxical Inheritance in Benjamins Kafka Essay3. Benjamins 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: Benjamins "Cool Place" between Kant and Nietzsche6. Going with Time: A Miniature on Time and Photography after BenjaminBibliographyIndex Review Engaging and lucidly written, Inheriting Walter Benjamin offers new insights into some of Benjamins most important theoretical concerns. From inheritance to critique, from the work of art to the critical, dangerous moment of reading, Richters rhetorical close readings of key passages are one of the great strengths of this work. * MLN *Perhaps the greatest contribution of this new book to Benjamin studies is the discovery that Benjamins reflections on the question of inheritance traverse his entire corpus and that "inheritance" may function as a key concept. * German Studies Review *Gerhard Richter brings meaning to the event of inheritance, which affects us in every walk--and failure--of life. The work explores with exquisite integrity what has motivated or tripped us as we are traversed by the experience that Benjamin names and crucially disarticulates. The extent to which Benjamins text remote controls modern trials of transmissibility and consciousness remains briskly active. Beautifully written, with punch and poignancy, Richters work commands the authority of the great doubter and accomplished scholar as it constitutes Benjamins legacy, supplying pleasure and stirring insight to the complex themes, obsessions, and bewilderment of our era. * Avital Ronell, University Professor in the Humanities, New York University, USA *With his carefully elaborated notion of literary and cultural inheritance, Gerhard Richter lends rare coherence both to Benjamins critical task and to the elective affinities that he shared with such crucial contemporaries as Martin Heidegger. In its dynamic fluidity, this study accommodates exciting tangents, including a new take on Benjamins gravitation to photography as icon and catalyst of modernization. Engagingly written, rigorous, and well-documented, this book comprises a rich new resource. * Henry Sussman, Visiting Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, USA *This is a fascinating and challenging book. Richters subtle readings demonstrate the theological, political, philosophical, and aesthetic complexity - and contemporary urgency - of Benjamins concept of inheritance. * Rebecca Comay, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Canada *Gerhard Richter is one of a tiny handful of the most important readers of Walter Benjamin. Inheriting Walter Benjamin will not only enhance that reputation; it also shows Richter as a brilliant scholar of an astonishing range of texts and objects ranging from Kant through contemporary photography. This book is a must read for anyone interested in Benjamin—and in innovative and highly suggestive readings of him. * Michael W. Jennings, Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages, Princeton University, USA *"… Richters volume is a remarkable achievement, representing a renewal of non-hermeneutic but text-centered reading practices that judiciously employ the heritage of philological exegesis, deconstructive analysis, and the etymological reconstruction of key terms in the service of re-situating Benjamins writings in broader but hitherto under-explored legacies of philosophy, theology, and aesthetics. In so doing, Richters monograph raises important questions concerning tradition, transmission, and cultural translatability that deserve to resonate for a long time to come. * Monatshefte * Promotional Gerhard Richter, a leading critical theorist and Benjamin scholar, examines one of the central questions of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance, in relation to the work of Walter Benjamin. Review Quote Perhaps the greatest contribution of this new book to Benjamin studies is the discovery that Benjamins reflections on the question of inheritance traverse his entire corpus and that "inheritance" may function as a key concept. Promotional "Headline" Gerhard Richter, a leading critical theorist and Benjamin scholar, examines one of the central questions of modernity- the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance, in relation to the work of Walter Benjamin. Feature A totally fresh interpretation of one of the key writers of modernity Details ISBN1474251234 Author Professor Gerhard Richter Short Title INHERITING WALTER BENJAMIN Language English ISBN-10 1474251234 ISBN-13 9781474251235 Media Book Format Paperback Residence WI, US Series Walter Benjamin Studies Pages 176 Year 2016 Publication Date 2016-02-25 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations black & white illustrations Affiliation Winchester College, UK UK Release Date 2016-02-25 NZ Release Date 2016-02-25 Edited by Claire Webster Birth 1952 Death 1990 Position Classics Teacher Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DEWEY 193 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2016-02-24 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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