Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept
of "afterness" is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of
modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean for
something to "follow" something else? Does that which follows mark
a clear break with what came before it, or does it in fact tacitly
perpetuate its predecessor as a consequence of its inevitable
indebtedness to the terms and conditions of that from which it
claims to have departed? Indeed, is not the very act of breaking
with, and then following upon, a way of retroactively constructing
and fortifying that from which the break that set the movement of
following into motion had occurred?
The book explores the concept and movement of afterness as a
privileged yet uncanny category through close readings of writers
such as Kant, Kafka, Heidegger, Bloch, Benjamin, Brecht, Adorno,
Arendt, Lyotard, and Derrida. It shows how the vexed concepts of
afterness, following, and coming after shed new light on a
constellation of modern preoccupations, including personal and
cultural memory, translation, photography, hope, and the historical
and conceptual specificity of what has been termed "after
Auschwitz." The study's various analyses--across a heterogeneous
collection of modern writers and thinkers, diverse historical
moments of articulation, and a range of media--conspire to
illuminate Lyotard's apodictic statement that "after philosophy
comes philosophy. But it has been altered by the 'after.'" As
Richter's intricate study demonstrates, much hinges on our
interpretation of the "after." After all, our most fundamental
assumptions concerning modern aesthetic representation, conceptual
discourse, community, subjectivity, and politics are at stake.
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