Uncontainable Legacies : : Theses on Intellectual, Cultural, and Political Inheritance / / Gerhard Richter.

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• VerfasserIn: Richter, Gerhard,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Incitements : INCI
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

How do our ceaseless conversations with what has passed and with those who have passed something on to us propel us into a precarious future? Examines one of the central human concerns – the problem of what it means to inherit an intellectual, cultural, and political legacy – in a new lightArgues that to inherit always means to interpret something that resists full transparencyDraws on a wide range of figures in philosophy, literature, political thought and the arts from the German, English, French and American traditionsOffers an engaging and highly topical intervention in the stakes and possible futures of the humanities todayIn a series of evocatively titled theses, including ‘Wrinkles’, ‘Inheriting a Feeling’, ‘Weight of the World’ and ‘Making Treasures Speak’, Gerhard Richter engages the quintessentially human dilemma of how to receive an intellectual, cultural or political inheritance. In dialogue with philosophers including Heraclitus, Arendt and Derrida; writers such as Montaigne, Hölderlin, Kafka and Knausgaard; artists such as Michelangelo, Picasso, Anselm Kiefer and Art Spiegelman; filmmakers such as Jean-Marie Straub; scholars and scientists Freud and Einstein; and pop-cultural phenomena the rock band The Who and the Broadway play The Inheritance, Richter contemplates the problem of interpreting an inheritance that resists full transparency. Richter argues that inheriting is not the same as yearning for a former presence or nostalgically striving to preserve an identity. At once philosophical and poetic, his aphoristic theses illuminate how the constantly shifting nature of our relationship to what we inherit from others makes us who we are.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 The One Who Inherits, Interprets -- 2 Thetic Inheritance -- 3 Ideal Reader -- 4 No Conservatism -- 5 Triple Temporalities -- 6 Generations -- 7 The Difficulty of Using Freely What Is One’s Own -- 8 Elusive Inheritance -- 9 Inheriting a Feeling -- 10 Who Is the Human Being? -- 11 Homo Hereditans -- 12 Ruptured Temporalities -- 13 Language -- 14 Other Languages, Languages of the Other -- 15 We Are What We Inherit -- 16 Saying -- 17 Always Already -- 18 Ghostly Traces -- 19 Undecidability -- 20 Question Marks -- 21 Endings, Beginnings -- 22 Ends of Time -- 23 Life and Death -- 24 Leave-Taking -- 25 Orphaned Remains -- 26 Masterless Legacy -- 27 Unwanted Inheritance -- 28 The Original Unwanted Inheritance -- 29 Unwanted Inheritance, Redux -- 30 Refusals -- 31 Hegelian Labors of Inheritance -- 32 Unreadabilities of Inheritance -- 33 Wrinkles -- 34 Singularities of Misinheriting -- 35 Suspended Differentiations -- 36 The Past Is Not Past -- 37 Reinvention I -- 38 Reinvention II -- 39 Paleonomies -- 40 Imposition -- 41 Being Born Posthumously -- 42 Grave Cares -- 43 Un héritier -- 44 Inheriting Myths -- 45 Backward and Forward -- 46 Relating to an Inheritance Without Imitating -- 47 Deniers -- 48 Something Is Taking Its Course -- 49 Coming After -- 50 Inheriting Learning -- 51 Institutions -- 52 Nonexplicative Bequeathing -- 53 Explanations Come to an End Somewhere -- 54 Time after Time -- 55 Inheriting Binaries -- 56 Refusals Redux -- 57 Recognizing the Self -- 58 Mitwelt -- 59 Refusals of Fashion -- 60 Refusals, One More Time -- 61 Keeping Watch -- 62 Palliatives -- 63 Little Greeks -- 64 Inheriting Inheritance -- 65 Anxieties of Inheritance -- 66 Living On -- 67 There May Be No Heir -- 68 Chiseling -- 69 Arresting Motion -- 70 Elective Affinities -- 71 Letting Sentences Run Risks -- 72 The Strength That No Certainty Can Match -- 73 Fatherless Inheritance -- 74 Speaking With the Dead -- 75 Two Sides of the Coin -- 76 The Past Conditional -- 77 Humic Inheritance -- 78 Selections -- 79 Who Inherits? -- 80 Dwarfs on the Shoulders of Giants -- 81 Translation I -- 82 Translation II -- 83 Haunting Inheritance -- 84 To Read What Was Never Written -- 85 Inheriting a Future -- 86 Archival Traces -- 87 Invisibilities -- 88 Refunctionalizing I -- 89 Refunctionalizing II -- 90 Forgetting One’s Language, Making History -- 91 Inheriting a Contested Provenance -- 92 Reading Inheriting -- 93 Understanding Tropes -- 94 Je suis, I am — Do You Follow? -- 95 Parusia -- 96 Possibilities of Prosopopoeia -- 97 What’s the Difference, Kafka? -- 98 Inheritance Would Be a Good Idea -- 99 Quotation -- 100 Today -- 101 Teacups -- 102 Debts -- 103 No Debts? -- 104 Parental Riddles -- 105 Mothers of the Heir -- 106 Children of the Heir -- 107 Fathers (Worrisome Bequeathing) -- 108 Inherited Jouissance -- 109 Self-Inheritance of Time I -- 110 Self-Inheritance of Time II -- 111 Applied Self-Inheritance -- 112 Self-Inheritance Tripped Up -- 113 Perverse Inheritance -- 114 Unreasonable Reason -- 115 Faulty Origins -- 116 Heirs of the Ages -- 117 Inheriting the Sound of Silence I -- 118 Inheriting the Sound of Silence II -- 119 Fibers -- 120 Inheriting a Question Mark -- 121 Not for Cowards -- 122 Weight of the World -- 123 Making Treasures Speak -- 124 Loss -- 125 Generalized Capitalism -- 126 Nostalgia for the Future -- 127 Rich Inner Life -- 128 Doxa -- 129 Side-Taking -- 130 Detours and Forest Paths -- 131 Stone -- 132 Not Done -- 133 Proof -- 134 Creating Concepts -- 135 Those Days -- 136 Untimeliness -- 137 Heir to Come -- 138 Different Heir-Selves -- 139 Possible Failures -- 140 Partial Inheritance -- 141 No Repetition -- 142 How It Goes -- 143 Not for Sale -- 144 Wall Street Inherits Das Kapital -- 145 The Sibling Rivalry of Inherited Space -- 146 Inheriting the Wrong Words -- 147 Creative Solitudes -- 148 End Times -- 149 Inheriting Extinction -- Reference Matter