Constellation : Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History / James McFarland.

Constellation : Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History / James McFarland.

9780823245390

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2012]

©2012

English

In English.

1 online resource (344 p.)

10.1515/9780823245390 doi

B3317 .M43 2013

193

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.

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