Minima Philologica

Informationen zum Autor Werner Hamacher (1948-2017) was Professor for General and Comparative Literature at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University. Among his pathbreaking works of philosophy and literary criticism available in English are Pleroma: Reading in Hegel ; Premises: Essays on Philosophy from Kant to Celan ; and Minima Philologica . Klappentext The texts in Minima Philologica, "95 Theses on Philology" and "For-Philology," release philology from institutional fetters, reveal its affinity with the nature of language, and teach us how to practice it on the model of poetry. Poetry is first philology because language routinely moves beyond the categories applied to it. To practice philology is to desire (philein) this frightening excess of language.

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• Authors: Werner Hamacher, Werner/ Diehl Hamacher
• Assisted by: Catharine Diehl (Translation), Catherine Diehl (Translation), Jason Groves (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2015
• EAN: 9780823265343
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6534-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theor
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies