Constellation : : Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History / / James McFarland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: McFarland, James,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• 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
• 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.

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.