Gerhard Richter

Broschiertes Buch

Uncontainable Legacies

Theses on Intellectual, Cultural, and Political Inheritance

Beschreibung

In a series of evocatively titled theses, including 'Wrinkles', 'Inheriting a Feeling', 'Weight of the World' and 'Making Treasures Speak', Gerhard Richter engages the quintessentially human dilemma of how to receive an intellectual, cultural or political inheritance.

Autor

Gerhard Richter is Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of Thinking with Adorno: The Uncoercive Gaze (Fordham University Press, 2019), Inheriting Walter Benjamin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics (Columbia University Press, 2011), Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life (Stanford University Press, 2007) and Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography (Wayne State University Press, 2000). He is editor of Give the Word: Responses to Werner Hamacher's 95 Theses on Philology (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Language without Soil: Adorno and Late Philosophical Modernity (Fordham University Press, 2010), Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship: Essays in Honor of Stanley Corngold (University of North Carolina Press, 2002) and Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (Stanford University Press, 2002).

Produktdetails

• Incitements
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 185mm x 135mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9781474487818
• ISBN-10: 1474487815
• Artikelnr.: 60603773