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.
| ISBN: | 9781474251235 |
| Publication date: | 25th February 2016 |
| Author: | Gerhard Richter |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Walter Benjamin Studies Series |
| Genres: |
Western philosophy from c 1800 Philosophy: aesthetics Literary theory |
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.
Inheriting Walter Benjamin features in the following genres: Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary theory
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Inheriting Walter Benjamin was written by Gerhard Richter and published by Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Inheriting Walter Benjamin has 192 pages
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