Afterness : : Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics / / Gerhard Richter.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Logic of Afterness
  • 1. Afterness and Modernity: A Genealogical Note
  • 2. Afterness and Critique: A Paradigmatic Case
  • 3. Afterness and Aesthetics: End Without End
  • 4. Afterness and Rettung : Can Anything Be Rescued by Defending It?
  • 5. Afterness and Translation: The Politics of Carrying Across
  • 6. Afterness and the Image (I): Unsettling Photography
  • 7. Afterness and the Image (II): Image Withdrawal
  • 8. Afterness and Experience (I): Can Hope Be Disappointed?
  • 9. Afterness and Experience (II): Crude Thinking Rethought
  • 10. Afterness and Experience (III): Mourning, Memory, and the Fictions of Anteriority
  • 11. Afterness and Empty Space: No Longer and Not Yet
  • Afterwards: After-Words
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Backmatter