James McFarland

Constellation (eBook, PDF)

Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History

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Produktbeschreibung

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 temporalityGnew and always the sameGof the present moment in history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823245390
• Artikelnr.: 44777174

Autorenporträt

James McFarland is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Vanderbilt University.