Gerhard Richter: 3 books

Book cover of Afterness

Afterness

Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics

by Gerhard Richter
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011

Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study 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...
Book cover of Inheriting Walter Benjamin
by Professor Gerhard Richter
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016

Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance. Covering aspects of Benjamin's complex relationship to the legacies of such writers as Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, and Derrida,...
Book cover of Das Haus am Ende des Weges ...

Das Haus am Ende des Weges ...

Auf den Spuren von Edgar Allan Poe

by Alf Glocker, Angelika Emmert, Andreas Schumacher
Language: German
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Wer kennt sie nicht? Die schaurigen Geschichten von Edgar Allan Poe? 59 Autoren haben sich an die Fersen des großen Meisters des Gruselns gehängt und sind ihm gefolgt, haben Geschichten geschrieben, die es in sich haben. Kaum weniger psychotisch, gruselig und mörderisch. Der amerikanische Schriftsteller...
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