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By Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter examines, within the paintings of Walter Benjamin, one of many relevant difficulties of modernity: the query of ways to obtain an highbrow inheritance.

Covering elements of Benjamin's advanced courting to the legacies of such writers as Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, and Derrida, each one bankruptcy attends to a key main issue in Benjamin's writing, whereas reflecting at the demanding situations that this factor offers for the query of inheritability and transmissibility. either studying Benjamin and observing himself analyzing Benjamin, Richter participates within the act of inheriting whereas additionally inquiring into the stipulations of probability for inheriting Benjamin's corpus today.

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