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Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514. Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts S. 272 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPN. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight: 510.
Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of "afterness" is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean for something to "follow" something else? Does that which follows mark a clear break with what came before it, or does it in fact tacitly perpetuate its predecessor as a consequence of its inevitable indebtedness to the terms and conditions of that from which it claims to have departed? Indeed, is not the very act of breaking with, and then following upon, a way of retroactively constructing and fortifying that ... Read more
Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of "afterness" is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean for something to "follow" something else? Does that which follows mark a clear break with what came before it, or does it in fact tacitly perpetuate its predecessor as a consequence of its inevitable indebtedness to the terms and conditions of that from which it claims to have departed? Indeed, is not the very act of breaking with, and then following upon, a way of retroactively constructing and fortifying that ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Number of Pages
272
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231157704
SKU
V9780231157704
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About Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter is professor of German studies and comparative literature and chair of the Department of German Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life; Asthetik des Ereignisses: Sprache--Geschichte--Medium; and Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography. He is also the editor of five additional books in the area of European ... Read more
Reviews for Afterness
a worthwhile read...a refreshing way to think 'post-modernity' without the brittleness of the 'post'...
Jill Petersen Adams Continental Philosophy Review [readers are] richly rewarded by a multifaceted survey of the discourse of modernity.
Klaus Hofmann MLQ Gerhard Richter's rigorously argued book about what he calls 'afterness'... is the lure to thought whose uncertain traces Richter follows through the ... Read more
Jill Petersen Adams Continental Philosophy Review [readers are] richly rewarded by a multifaceted survey of the discourse of modernity.
Klaus Hofmann MLQ Gerhard Richter's rigorously argued book about what he calls 'afterness'... is the lure to thought whose uncertain traces Richter follows through the ... Read more