Description
This book by Gerhard Richter, a professor of German studies and comparative literature at Brown University, explores a distinctive figure of modernity: the experience of following, surviving, succeeding or arriving after someone or something, which may be called afterness. Through analyses of texts by Kafka, Heidegger, Benjamin, Brecht, Adorno, Lyotard and Derrida, Richter shows how afterness shapes personal and collective memory, translation, photography, hope, and the possibility of thought and philosophy after Auschwitz. What begins with the seemingly trivial observation that we always find ourselves after something becomes a remarkable illumination of Lyotard’s claim that after philosophy comes philosophy, transformed by the very meaning of “after.”
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Author: Richter Gerhard
Language: Czech
Publication date: March 3, 2022
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství Karolinum
Genres: Books, Philosophy, Specialized and technical literature, Social sciences
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 268
ISBN/EAN: 9788024645483