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On the Brink - Language, Time, History, and Politics (Paperback)
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On the Brink - Language, Time, History, and Politics (Paperback)
Series: Philosophical Projections
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As its title suggests, this collections of essays by one of the
foremost theorists working today takes as its theme the edge or
limit between language, time, history, and politics. These are
essays that are all on the brink, about the edge, the very extreme
at which one can no longer say where one is located, neither on the
cliff, say, nor over the edge. To be on the brink, then, is to take
up that extreme limit, the point of contamination or
indetermination where language, time, history, and politics all
converge upon one another. The book begins with a consideration of
Kant's treatment of time as representation, before moving toward
more explicitly political themes as it engages political theology
and messianism in Hegel and Hoelderlin. The second section explores
the questionof language in a variety of manifestations-from
translation to complaint and greeting-and through a number of
literary and cultural forms, from the work of Mallarme to email.
The volume concludes with an interview in which Hamacher offers a
revealing overview of his work, beginning with an account of his
early writings and moving up to his most recent essays.
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