| Inheriting Walter Benjamin Contributor(s): Richter, Gerhard (Author), Benjamin, Andrew (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1474251242 ISBN-13: 9781474251242 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Epistemology |
| Dewey: 838.912 |
| LCCN: 2015028723 |
| Series: Walter Benjamin Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.78 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |