...Howard Eiland Drawing on writings of the German Romantic tradition, Werner Hamacher’s aphoristic Minima Philologica develops a philosophy of philology, one operating without the control mechanisms of instrumentalized thought but not without internal rigor. Hamacher conceives philology as an art...

... ( Abbau der Gewalt ) is seen in the context of phenomenology. In addition, texts by Hermann Cohen and Georges Sorel are studied as principal sources, and critical commentaries by Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, and Werner Hamacher are discussed. Violence is considered an essentially...

...- tique by Derrida (1993) and coeditor of The Spirit of Poesy: Essays on Jewish and German Literature and Philosophy in Honor of Géza von Molnár (2000). He is also the translator of Werner Hamacher’s Premises: Literature and Philosophy from Kant...

... Nobby's divinatory poetics from a distinctly philological perspective, which, as Werner Hamacher ( 2015 : 18, 22–28) reminds us, is “founded in poetry”: a longing for language—as the term tells us—an attraction to language, a “liking” of language that is also an appeal to language. More specifically, I'd...

... fallen ].” This stone that is addressed reappears in the opening line of the last poem I want to briefly address, the poem “Radix, Matrix,” from the later volume NoOnesRose . That poem opens, “As one speaks to the stone, as / you, to me from the abyss” (285). The poem, as Werner Hamacher ( 1985 : 294...

... Henri . (1910) 1960 . Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness . Translated by Pogson F. L. . New York : Harper and Row . Eiland Howard . 2018 . “ Technique of Nearness .” Berlin Journal of Critical Theory 2 , no. 4 : 75 – 86 . Hamacher Werner...

... is in the essay on Shelley’s Triumph of Life’’ [RR, ix operates the kind of grasping I signal above. Because the narrative in that essay is of significa- tion, and the theater is the moves in reading, we tend not to notice the phe- nomenalization. Werner Hamacher, an astute reader, catches it, I think...

... and Courtauld Institutes 44 : 101 – 29 . Hadot Pierre . 1995 . Philosophy as a Way of Life . Edited by Davidson Arnold I. , translated by Chase Michael . Oxford : Blackwell . Hamacher Werner . 1994 . “ Afformative, Strike .” In Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy: Destruction...

... of this commodity-language,­ in the exchange between the linen and the coat, Werner Hamacher observes that it is restricted to propo- sitions of equality.29 Hamacher further notes that its “statements are not propositions of existence but arithmetical propositions of relation which can claim validity even...

... . Freud Sigmund . 1959 . Inhibition, Symptom, Anxiety . Translated by Strachey Alix . New York : Norton . Hamacher Werner . 2012 . “Intensive Languages.” MLN 127 , no. 3 : 485 – 541 . Nietzsche Friedrich . 1968 . Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil...

... to the brutality and sheer vulgarity of linguistic interpellation’s exchange of question for certitude and the narcissism moti- vating it on what seems every page of Invisible Man, animating the ideo- logical exchange of what Werner Hamacher calls difference for position, or aporia for understanding.9 To live...

... Studies . Edited and translated by Miller Douglas . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Hamacher Werner . 1988 . “ The Word ‘Wolke’—If It Is One .” In Benjamin’s Ground: New Readings of Walter Benjamin , edited by Nägele Rainer , 147 – 76 . Detroit : Wayne State...

.... That sounds like it must be a book by Werner Hamacher or Samuel Weber, per- haps a new volume in the Glyph monograph series. But, in fact, it is a pre- emptive strike, performed in accord with President Bush’s National Secu- rity Strategy; I quote from the White House: ‘‘The gravest danger our nation...

... and ontological possessiveness. This “right without right,” should be read in relation to the revolutionary “declaration of the rights of man and the citizen,” as well as Werner Hamacher's investigations into the right to have rights, the right not to have rights, and the right no one ever has (or the “property...