Constellation - by James McFarland (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Elaborates the relationship between the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and the cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) through close readings of their respective texts as an example of the precariousness of cultural transmission in the present.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Constellation is the first extended exploration of the relationship between Walter Benjamin, the Weimar-era revolutionary cultural critic, and the radical philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The affinity between these noncontemporaneous thinkers serves as a limit case manifesting the precariousness and potentials of cultural transmission in a disillusioned present. <p/>In five chapters, Constellation presents the changing figure of Nietzsche as Benjamin encountered him: an inspiration to his student activism, an authority for his skeptical philology, a manifestation of his philosophical nihilism, a companion in his political exile, and ultimately a subversive collaborator in his efforts to think beyond the hopeless temporality--new and always the same--of the present moment in history.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Not only does McFarland evince himself as an original and compelling interpreter of Nietzsche and Benjamin. He strings key passages together in such a way that his exegetical performance fans out toward both authors, configuring them in an inexorable interface of shared interpretation and critique."<b>-----Henry Sussman, <i>Yale University</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br><strong>James McFarland</strong> is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Vanderbilt University.<br>
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