TY - BOOK ID - 137112232 TI - Constellation : Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the now-time of history PY - 2013 SN - 0823245381 082324539X 0823250687 0823250458 PB - New York : Fordham University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, KW - Benjamin, Walter, KW - Benjamin. KW - Nietzsche. KW - exile. KW - nihilism. KW - philology. KW - revolution. KW - student activism. KW - temporality. KW - tragedy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137112232 AB - 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. 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. ER -