Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics
Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics
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Abstract
This book 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 Immanuel Kant, Franz Kafka, Martin Heidegger, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jacques 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 book’s various analyses illuminate Lyotard’s apodictic statement that “after philosophy comes philosophy. But it has been altered by the after.” The book demonstrates, that much hinges on our interpretation of the “after”.
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Front Matter
- Introduction: The Logic of Afterness
- 1 Afterness and Modernity: A Genealogical Note
- 2 Afterness and Critique: A Paradigmatic Case
- 3 Afterness and Aesthetics: End Without End
- 4 Afterness and Rettung: Can Anything Be Rescued by Defending It?
- 5 Afterness and Translation: The Politics of Carrying Across
- 6 Afterness and the Image (I): Unsettling Photography
- 7 Afterness and the Image (II): Image Withdrawal
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Afterness and Experience (I): Can Hope Be Disappointed?
- 9 Afterness and Experience (II): Crude Thinking Rethought
- 10 Afterness and Experience (III): Mourning, Memory, and the Fictions of Anteriority
- 11 Afterness and Empty Space: No Longer and Not Yet
- Afterwards: After-Words
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