Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan

by Werner Hamacher

Book Overview

"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"