Constellation : Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the now-time of history / James McFarland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McFarland, James, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Benjamin, Walter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Constellation is the first extended exploration of the relationship between Walter Benjamin, the Weimar-era revolutionary cultural critic, and the radical philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The affinity between these noncontemporaneous thinkers serves as a limit case manifesting the precariousness and potentials of cultural transmission in a disillusioned present. In five chapters, Constellation presents the changing figure of Nietzsche as Benjamin encountered him: an inspiration to his student activism, an authority for his skeptical philology, a manifestation of his philosophical nihilism, a companion in his political exile, and ultimately a subversive collaborator in his efforts to think beyond the hopeless temporality—new and always the same—of the present moment in history.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

A note on citations

Introduction

Chapter One. Mortal Youth

Chapter Two. Presentation

Chapter Three. Inscription

Chapter Four. Collaboration

Chapter Five. Mad Maturity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780823245383

0823245381

9780823245390

082324539X

9780823250684

0823250687

9780823250455

0823250458

OCLC:

830023503