Constellation : : Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History / / James McFarland.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- A note on citations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Mortal Youth -- Chapter Two. Presentation -- Chapter Three. Inscription -- Chapter Four. Collaboration -- Chapter Five. Mad Maturity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | 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 temporality—new and always the same—of the present moment in history. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780823245390 9783111189604 9783110707298 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780823245390?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | James McFarland. |