Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan

by Werner Hamacher

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"Poetry does not impose, it exposes itself," wrote Paul Celan. Werner Hamacher's investigations into crucial texts of philosophical and literary modernity show that Celan's apothegm is also valid for the structure of understanding and for language in general. In Premises Hamacher demonstrates that the promise of a subject position is not only unavoidable--and thus operates as a structural imperative--but is also unattainable and therefore...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0804736200

ISBN13:9780804736206

Release Date:October 1999

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:408 Pages

Weight:0.81 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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