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Afterness : figures of following in modern thought and aesthetics / Gerhard Richter.
Loaned to Another Library B805 .R53 2011
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richter, Gerhard, 1967-
- Series:
- Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Modern--21st century.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Time--Philosophy.
- Time.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 262 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- "Time Plays a Central Role Within Philosophical and Literary encounters with modernity. Once time is no longer thought of in terms of linear progression and is therefore free from the burdens of historicism, what endures as the central demand is thinking the 'after.' In a remarkably nuanced and original work, Gerhard Richter addresses the multifaceted nature of the 'after.' While canonical figures such as Walter Benjamin, Heidegger, Adorno, Derrida, and Arendt form the figures around whom the argument is developed, what emerges is Richter's original contribution to an understanding of time within modernity. In working at the interface of philosophy and aesthetics-a site that modernity demands and rightly privileges-Richter develops a conception of time that stills the pathos of utopianism while holding the future open. The possibility of another beginning resides in the recognition that what occurs 'after' is already taking place." Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the logic of afterness
- Afterness and modernity : a genealogical note
- Afterness and critique : a paradigmatic case
- Afterness and aesthetics : end without end
- Afterness and rettung : can anything be rescued by defending it?
- Afterness and translation : the politics of carrying across
- Afterness and the image (I) : unsettling photography
- Afterness and the image (II) : image withdrawal
- Afterness and experience (I) : can hope be disappointed?
- Afterness and experience (II) : crude thinking rethought
- Afterness and experience (III) : mourning, memory, and the fictions of anteriority
- Afterness and empty space : no longer and not yet
- Afterwards : after-words.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231157704
- 0231157703
- 9780231530347
- 023153034X
- OCLC:
- 711642751
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