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Gerhard Richter is Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of Thinking with Adorno: The Uncoercive Gaze (Fordham University Press, 2019), Inheriting Walter Benjamin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics (Columbia University Press, 2011), Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life (Stanford University Press, 2007) and Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography (Wayne State University Press, 2000). He is editor of Give the Word: Responses to Werner Hamacher's 95 Theses on Philology (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Language without Soil: Adorno and Late Philosophical Modernity (Fordham University Press, 2010), Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship: Essays in Honor of Stanley Corngold (University of North Carolina Press, 2002) and Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (Stanford University Press, 2002).
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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?
In 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.
Zusammenfassung
In 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.
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