On the Brink: Language, Time, History, and Politics

by Werner Hamacher

Book Overview

This collection of essays by one of the foremost figures in contemporary theory takes as its theme the edge or limit between language, time, history, and politics. These are essays that are all on the brink, the very extreme at which one can no longer define where one is located, neither on the cliff, say, nor over the edge. To be on the brink is to take up that extreme limit, the point of contamination or indetermination where language, time,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786603926
• ISBN13: 9781786603920
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"