Afterness : figures of following in modern thought and aesthetics /

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 be...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Richter, Gerhard, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
Series:Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Philosophy, Modern > 21st century.
Time > Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
Philosophie > 21e siècle.
Temps > Philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Deconstruction.
Aesthetics
Philosophy, Modern
Time > Philosophy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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