...This chapter examines translation as a form of afterness. It first considers Odo Marquard’s interpretation of Martin Heidegger’s aesthetic gestures, and in particular of the latter’s understanding of Friedrich Schiller. It explores how Marquard implicitly distances himself from Philippe Lacoue...

... work into a constellation. By situating Kafka’s and Derrida’s reflections on photography in the context of the work of German photographer Stefan Moses, the chapter problematizes the afterness of a photograph and its relation to an allegedly referential original subject, particularly with regard...

...This chapter examines whether, given the uncanny “thereness” of the image today, one might nevertheless theorize a certain withdrawal of the image. Conceptualized both as a physical object and as an intellectual figure, one might say that the image is one that manifests itself after—that is, both...

...This chapter explores a different experience of afterness: the mode of thinking that differentiates between subtle and crude analysis. During the time of afterness, when so much has come and gone, has been assumed and left behind, at a time when so little still seems capable of really surprising us...

...This chapter deals with questions of memory, recollection, and remembrance as instantiations of afterness. Focusing on Jacques Derrida’s reworking of the two Hegelian concepts of memory for which there is only one English term, Gedächtnis and Erinnerung...

...This book has explored the concept of afterness that has been expressed by the texts of modernity in many guises. It has attempted to concretize, in a variety of conceptual registers, the question as to what kind of a “beginning” the concept and experience of afterness always will have been...

...This book argues that the concept of “afterness” is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean for something to “follow” something else? Does that which follows mark a clear break with what came before it, or does it in fact tacitly...

...This book explores the concept of “afterness” as a privileged trope and experiential category of modernity in a variety of iterations and modulations. More specifically, it analyzes certain structural and conceptual features of afterness that traverse the spectral reverberations of any act...

...This chapter situates the problem of afterness in the genealogical context of post-Kantian modernity. In particular, it explains the general sense in which the historico-epistemic terms “modern” and “modernity” frame the structural problem of afterness. It argues that afterness as a category hardly...

...This chapter explores the problem of afterness in one of its most representative formulations: as it emerges in the moment of critique or criticism. Inasmuch as the gesture of critique presupposes a distancing of oneself from one’s object of scrutiny, critique can be regarded as a textbook example...

...This chapter examines a poetic and philosophical thought-image from Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia in the context of his larger theoretical models furnished by Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory. The thinking of afterness for which Adorno...

...This chapter argues that there can be no gesture of rescuing that is not deeply inscribed in the logic of an afterness. The felt need to rescue something always implies an afterness. Wishing to rescue something—whether from disappearance, destruction, violation, or transformation—places the one who...

...This chapter explores the relation between afterness and the experience of hope, with particular emphasis on the experiential category of hope that animates Ernst Bloch’s oeuvre. Hope, even when it breaks with the past in the name of a new time to come, remains intimately tied to those patterns...

...This chapter tackles the question of whether afterness can be thought to have a space, a Zeitraum, in which its movements can be thought. The German word Zeitraum, idiomatically translated, indicates a period of time but literally means “time-space”; it suggests...