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On the Brink: Language, Time, History, and Politics - Couverture rigide

Livre 6 sur 8: Philosophical Projections

Werner Hamacher - Jan Plug - Introduction Andrew Benjamin

 
9781786603913: On the Brink: Language, Time, History, and Politics
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1786603918 ISBN 13 : 9781786603913
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2020

Synopsis

This collection of essays by one of the foremost figures in contemporary theory takes as its theme the edge or limit between language, time, history, and politics. These are essays that are all on the brink, the very extreme at which one can no longer define where one is located, neither on the cliff, say, nor over the edge. To be on the brink is to take up that extreme limit, the point of contamination or indetermination where language, time, history, and politics all converge upon one another.

On the Brink begins with a consideration of Kant’s treatment of time as representation and of Hegel’s treatment of the writing of history and the end of art, all while taking up other key figures in the history of philosophy. The book then moves to an exploration of language in a variety of manifestations, from translation to complaint and greeting. It concludes by analyzing political and social questions that continue to haunt us today—the conception of work, not least in National Socialism, and our relationship to democracy. Taken together, Werner Hamacher’s essays offer trenchant historical, political, and rhetorical interventions into the history of philosophy, literature, and our contemporary political situation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Werner Hamacher (1948–2017) was the founder and director of the Institute of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Frankfurt and Emmanuel Levinas Chair at the European Graduate School. His many publications include Pleroma: Reading in Hegel (1997), Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan (1999), Minima Philologica (2015), and Two Studies of Friedrich Hölderlin (2020).

Jan Plug is professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1786603918
ISBN 13 
9781786603913
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
242
Coordonnées du fabricant
Rowman & Littlefield
https://rowman.com/

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