Inheriting Walter Benjamin

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.\n\nCovering aspects of Benjamin's complex relationship to the legacies of such writers as Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, and Derrida, each chapter attends to a key concern in Benjamin's writing, while reflecting on the challenges that this issue presents for the question of inheritability and transmissibility. Both reading Benjamin and watching himself reading Benjamin, Richter participates in the act of inheriting while also inquiring into the conditions of possibility for inheriting Benjamin's corpus today.Inheriting Walter Benjamin 1st Edition is written by Gerhard Richter and published by Bloomsbury Academic. ISBNs for Inheriting Walter Benjamin are 9781474251259, 1474251250 and the print ISBNs are 9781474251235, 1474251234.