Constellation [[electronic resource] ] : Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the now-time of history / / James McFarland

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786194803321
• Autore: McFarland James (Philip James)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-8232-4538-1; 0-8232-4539-X; 0-8232-5068-7; 0-8232-5045-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 p.)
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetti: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- A note on citations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Mortal Youth -- Chapter Two. Presentation -- Chapter Three. Inscription -- Chapter Four. Collaboration -- Chapter Five. Mad Maturity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.