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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Fordham Univ Pr
Publication date March 2, 2015
Pages 161
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780823265350
ISBN-10 0823265358
Dimensions 0.50 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight 0.52 lbs.
Original list price $29.00
Other format details university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of linguistic data and their meanings. In these two texts, "95 Theses on Philology" and "For-Philology," Hamacher propounds a notion of generalized philology that is equivalent to the real production of linguistic utterances, and indeed utterances not limited to predicative or even discursive statements. Philology, in speaking for language where no clear and distinct language is given, exhibits and exposes the structure of language in general. The first text, "95 Theses on Philology," challenges academic philology as well as other disciplines across the humanities and sciences that "use" language, assuming it to be a given entity and not an event. The theses develop what Hamacher calls the "idea of philology" by describing the constitution of its objects, its relation to knowledge, its suspension of consciousness, and its freedom for what remains always still to be said.

In "For-Philology," both speaking and writing, Hamacher argues, follow, discursively and non-discursively, the desire for language. Desire-philía-is the insatiable affect that drives the movement between utterances toward the next and the one after that. Desiring language-logos-means to respond to an alien utterance that precedes you, ignorant about where the path will lead, accepting loss and uncertainty, thinking in and through language and the lack of it, exceeding, returning, responding to others, cutting into and off what is to be said. In arguing this, Hamacher responds, directly or obliquely, to other philological thinkers such as Plato and Schlegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger, as well as to poets such as Rene Char, Francis Ponge, Paul Celan, and Friedrich Holderlin. Taken together, the essays of Minima Philologica constitute a manifesto for a new understanding of linguistic existence that breaks new ways of attending to language and those who live by it.


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Hardcover
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With Catherine Diehl (other contributor), Werner Hamacher | from Fordham Univ Pr (March 2, 2015)
9780823265343 | details & prices | 161 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.74 lbs | List price $85.00
About: Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of linguistic data and their meanings.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780823265350
 
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With Catherine Diehl (other contributor), Werner Hamacher | from Fordham Univ Pr (March 2, 2015)
9780823265350 | details & prices | 161 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.52 lbs | List price $29.00
About: Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of linguistic data and their meanings.

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