Richter Afterness

Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-53034-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Richter, Gerhard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Logic of Afterness
1. Afterness and Modernity: A Genealogical Note
2. Afterness and Critique: A Paradigmatic Case
3. Afterness and Aesthetics: End Without End
4. Afterness and Rettung: Can Anything Be Rescued by Defending It?
5. Afterness and Translation: The Politics of Carrying Across
6. Afterness and the Image (I): Unsettling Photography
7. Afterness and the Image (II): Image Withdrawal
8. Afterness and Experience (I): Can Hope Be Disappointed?
9. Afterness and Experience (II): Crude Thinking Rethought
10. Afterness and Experience (III): Mourning, Memory, and the Fictions of Anteriority
11. Afterness and Empty Space: No Longer and Not Yet
Afterwards: After-Words
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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; Ästhetik 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.