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

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 th...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Incitements : INCI
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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