Description: Werner Hamacher, one of the most important and original theorists working in literary criticism and continental philosophy, explores topics at the intersection of philosophy, literary studies and politics.
Brief description: Andrew Benjamin is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia. His many publications include Towards a Relational Ontology. Philosophy's Other Possibility (2015), Working with Walter Benjamin (2013), Of Jews and Animals (2010), Place, Commonality and Judgment (2010) and Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance (2006).
Review Quotes:
"This superb collection of hitherto uncollected (and partly untranslated) essays by Werner Hamacher entangles philosophical rigour and philological acuity in unsurpassed and uncompromising ways, by laying bare the abysmal character of linguistic experience, on the brink of which every single word remains exposed, as Friedrich Hölderlin reminds: Vom Abgrund nemlich haben / Wir angefangen: For from the abyss we / Have begun." --Thomas Schestag, Professor of German Studies, Brown University
"This dazzling collection of truly original essays articulates the mutual imbrication of language, art, philosophy and politics. Hamacher's rigorous and uncompromising work on and with language, tracing movements of resistance, withdrawal and displacement, challenges the dominance of meaning and intentionality, and even the unity, of language." --Susan Bernstein, Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies, Brown University