Afterness : figures of following in modern thought and aesthetics

Başlık:

ISBN:

9780231530347

9780231157704

Personal Author:

Richter, Gerhard, 1967- author.

Yayın Bilgileri:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]

Fiziksel Tanımlama:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Series:

Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts

Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.

Contents:

Introduction : the logic of afterness -- Afterness and modernity : a genealogical note -- Afterness and critique : a paradigmatic case -- Afterness and aesthetics : end without end -- Afterness and rettung : can anything be rescued by defending it? -- Afterness and translation : the politics of carrying across -- Afterness and the image (I) : unsettling photography -- Afterness and the image (II) : image withdrawal -- Afterness and experience (I) : can hope be disappointed? -- Afterness and experience (II) : crude thinking rethought -- Afterness and experience (III) : mourning, memory, and the fictions of anteriority -- Afterness and empty space : no longer and not yet -- Afterwards : after-words.

Abstract:

Gerhard Richter's study argues that the concept of 'afterness' is key to understanding the thought and aesthetics of modernity. He pursues such questions as what it means for something to 'follow' something else and whether what follows marks a clear break with what comes before. The book's various analyses illuminate Lyotard's apodictic statement that 'after philosophy comes philosophy. But it has been altered by the after'. The book demonstrates, that much hinges on our interpretation of the 'after'.

Local Note:

JSTOR

Subject Term:

Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century.

Time -- Philosophy.

Aesthetics.

Philosophie -- 21e siècle.

Temps -- Philosophie.

PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.

PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Deconstruction.

Aesthetics

Philosophy, Modern