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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823245383
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: ConstellationDDC classification:
  • 193
LOC classification:
  • B3317 .M43 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Citations -- Introduction: Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Nietzsche -- The Förster House -- Affinity -- Excelsior! -- 1. Mortal Youth -- A Youthful Facies -- The Friend -- Conversation -- Heinle -- Abstand -- 2. Presentation -- Philology -- Tragedy -- Hamlet -- Socrates -- Silence -- 3. Inscription -- Pseudomenon -- Untimeliness -- Muri -- We Philologists -- Asyndeton -- 4. Collaboration -- Shadow -- Wanderer -- Correspondence -- Demon -- Caesura -- 5. Mad Maturity -- Born Posthumously -- Conspiracy -- Eternal Return -- Glück -- Now-Time -- Conclusion: Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin -- Transcendental Medicine -- The Pawnshop -- The End of All Things -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Summary: Elaborates the relationship between the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and the cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) through close readings of their respective texts as an example of the precariousness of cultural transmission in the present.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Citations -- Introduction: Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Nietzsche -- The Förster House -- Affinity -- Excelsior! -- 1. Mortal Youth -- A Youthful Facies -- The Friend -- Conversation -- Heinle -- Abstand -- 2. Presentation -- Philology -- Tragedy -- Hamlet -- Socrates -- Silence -- 3. Inscription -- Pseudomenon -- Untimeliness -- Muri -- We Philologists -- Asyndeton -- 4. Collaboration -- Shadow -- Wanderer -- Correspondence -- Demon -- Caesura -- 5. Mad Maturity -- Born Posthumously -- Conspiracy -- Eternal Return -- Glück -- Now-Time -- Conclusion: Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin -- Transcendental Medicine -- The Pawnshop -- The End of All Things -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Elaborates the relationship between the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and the cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) through close readings of their respective texts as an example of the precariousness of cultural transmission in the present.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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