{"product_id":"constellation-james-mcfarland-9780823245369","title":"Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy excavating this neglected relationship philologically and elaborating its philosophical implications in the surviving texts of both men, Constellation produces new and compelling readings of their works and through them triangulates a theoretical limit in the present, a fractured \"now-time\" suspended between madness and suicide, from which the collective future regains a measure of consequential and transformative vitality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James McFarland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823245365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823245369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Language Initiative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.20d","brand":"James McFarland","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46372321034495,"sku":"9780823245369","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de073f7e-f838-49e8-ab3c-617896d7efd7.jpg?v=1732725626","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/constellation-james-mcfarland-9780823245369","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}