Premises
Essays on Philosophy from Kant to Celan
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Author
Contributions
- Peter Fenves (Translator) - Contributor
Publication
1997 - Harvard University Press
Language
English
Word Count
98,250 words, Guess
Page Count
393 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7693313M
- ISBN-139780674700734
- ISBN-100674700732
- OCLC Control Number34943216
- OCLC Control Numberpremisesessayson0000hama
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number96023686
- LibraryThing9217017
- Goodreads4543564
Classifications
- LCCPN49.H32213 1996
Description
"Poetry does not impose, it exposes itself," wrote Paul Celan. Werner Hamacher's investigations into crucial texts of philosophical and literary modernity show that Celan's apothegm is also valid for the structure of understanding and for language in general. "Subject position" is widely invoked today, yet Hamacher is the first to thoroughly investigate the premises for this invocation. He demonstrates that the promise of a subject position is not only unavoidable - and thus produces more and more fundamentalisms - but is also unattainable and therefore always open to innovation, revision, and unexpected transformation. In a book that is both philosophical and literary, Hamacher gives us the fullest account of the vast disruption in the very nature of our understanding that was first unleashed by Kant's critique of human subjectivity.
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