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Constellation - Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History (Paperback)
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Constellation - Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History (Paperback)
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Constellation is the first extended exploration of the relationship
between Walter Benjamin, the Weimar-era revolutionary cultural
critic, and the radical philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The
affinity between these noncontemporaneous thinkers serves as a
limit case manifesting the precariousness and potentials of
cultural transmission in a disillusioned present.
In five chapters, Constellation presents the changing figure of
Nietzsche as Benjamin encountered him: an inspiration to his
student activism, an authority for his skeptical philology, a
manifestation of his philosophical nihilism, a companion in his
political exile, and ultimately a subversive collaborator in his
efforts to think beyond the hopeless temporality--new and always
the same--of the present moment in history.
By excavating this neglected relationship philologically and
elaborating its philosophical implications in the surviving texts
of both men, Constellation produces new and compelling readings of
their works and through them triangulates a theoretical limit in
the present, a fractured "now-time" suspended between madness and
suicide, from which the collective future regains a measure of
consequential and transformative vitality.
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