Publication

2016-02-25 - Bloomsbury Academic

Language

English

Word Count

44,000 words, Guess

Page Count

176 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015028723
  • Amazon1474251242

Classifications

  • LCCB3209.B584 R53 2016
  • LCCB3209.B584R53 2016

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 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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