Gerhard Richter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerhard Richter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerhard |
| FAMILY NAME | Richter |
| SIGNATURE | RICHTER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford University Press (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Uncontainable Legacies: Theses on Intellectual, Cultural, and Political Inheritance
Troubled Origins: Accounting for Oneself (Derrida with Botho Strauß and Didier Eribon)
Even after the concept of ‘origin’ has been called into question, a troubling wish to speak of origins persists, especially in the narrative act of accounting for one's own origins in confessional discourse. Here, the self encounters the limits of its narratibility, even as it interrogates how, in the Nietzschean sense, it became what it is. This essay explores the question of troubled origins by placing Nietzsche's Ecce Homo: How One Becomes Wha…
Uncontainable Legacies: Theses on Intellectual, Cultural and Political Inheritance
To Read What Was Never Written
Although I was unaware of it at the time, my earliest encounter with John Henry Schlegel occurred in 1989, at that year's Law & Society Association meeting in Madison, Wisconsin-the first I ever attended.I had joined the audience for a panel discussion of the direction of scholarship in legal history, led by Lawrence Friedman, Bob Gordon, and Morty Horwitz, and including as well two representatives of the younger generation-Bill Novak and the lat…
Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography
Give the Word: Responses to Werner Hamacher's "95 Theses on Philology"
Thinking with Adorno: The Uncoercive Gaze
Thinking with Adorno: The Uncoercive Gaze
What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. The central aim of Thinking with Adorno: The Uncoervice Gaze is to examine how these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to think with Adorno—which is to say, both alongside him and in relation to his diverse contexts and constellations. These contexts and constellations range from aesthetic theo…
Eine Krankheit alles Bedeuten«
Gerhard Richter bestimmt mit Blick auf die Schriften Kafkas das Verhältnis von Literatur und Philosophie als ein paradoxes, in dem beide wechselseitig aufeinander verwiesen seien. Literatur brauche Philosophie, um auf den Begriff gebracht zu werden, die B
Give the Word: "Responses to Werner Hamacher's "95 Theses on Philology
"Give the Word puts together Werner Hamacher's groundbreaking 95 Theses, a wide collection of never-before-published essays in response to individual theses, and Hamacher's own reaction to these scholars' study of his work"
Interpretation, Revolution, Inheritance: Benjamin with Marx
Interpretation, Revolution, Inheritance:Benjamin with Marx Gerhard Richter (bio) In Section III of her seminal if controversial reading of Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt rightfully remarks upon Benjamin's engagement with what she diagnoses, here and elsewhere in her works, as a certain Traditionsbruch, or "break in tradition." She reminds her readers that, insofar as "the past has been transmitted as tradition, it possesses authority," and to the…
Introductory Note
Introductory Note Kristina Mendicino (bio) and Gerhard Richter, Guest Editors (bio) "It is dangerous to be an heir." —Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra The articles gathered in this special issue of MLN are, for the most part, based on papers delivered at an international conference entitled "Inheriting the Frankfurt School," organized by Kristina Mendicino and Gerhard Richter at Brown University on 23–24 September 2016. The conference explicitly…
He Who Inherits, Interprets: 14 Theses
He Who Inherits, Interprets:14 Theses Gerhard Richter (bio) [End Page 474] I He who inherits, interprets. One can even go one step further and aver: The inheritor stands before an enigma that, like an especially difficult and refractory text, resists the endowment of meaning. He who inherits in the emphatic sense, that is, he who is able to open up to the moment of a radical inheriting, will not be able to cease to interpret, and every true inter…
The Artwork without Cardinal Direction: Notes on Orientation in Adorno
The Artwork without Cardinal Direction:Notes on Orientation in Adorno Gerhard Richter (bio) The German systems theorist Niklas Luhmann once described the attitude and altitude of abstract thought as follows: “This theory design pushes the presentation [Darstellung] to unusually high levels of abstraction. Our flight must take place above the clouds, and we must reckon with a rather thick cloud cover. We must rely on our instruments. Occasionally,…
The Prize and Price of Thinking and Thanking: False Life, Living On
The Prize and Price of Thinking and Thanking:False Life, Living On Gerhard Richter Thinking and thanking form an uneasy couplet. As Nietzsche, the great doubter and relentless interrogator of ingratitude, cautions us in Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits: “He who gives a great gift encounters no gratitude [findet keine Dankbarkeit]; for the recipient, simply by accepting it, already has too much of a burden [denn der Beschenkte hat sch…
The Debt of Inheritance Revisited: Heidegger's Mortgage, Derrida's Appraisal
This essay revisits the question of inheritance, legacy and handing-down (das Erbe) as it is developed in Heidegger's Being and Time. A careful reading especially of paragraphs 6 and 72–74 allows us to consider whether Heidegger's notion of inheritance might not be far more resistant to modes of premature closure—such as its apparent exclusion of das Erbe from the workings of Destruktion—than readers often have perceived it to be. In a second ste…
Gespräch über Bäume
Gerhard Richter unternimmt eine Selbstvergewisserung in Bezug auf die Position des Intellektuellen in der heutigen Gesellschaft. Ausgehend von Brechts berühmten Versen, in denen ein Gespräch über Bäume ein Schweigen über unzählige Untaten mit sich bringt, misst Richter die widersprüchlichen Implikationen des kritischen Sprechens aus, indem er das brechtsche Bild des Baumes fortschreibt und dabei auch auf Positionen von Adorno und Marcuse zurückgr…
Die Erbschaft der Konstellation. Adorno und Hegel
Die Erbschaft der Konstellation.Adorno und Hegel Gerhard Richter (bio) Daß die Erfahrungswelt Theodor W. Adornos von zoologischen Motiven und Tiernamen durchzogen war, ist spätestens seit der Veröffentlichung seiner Briefe an die Eltern bekannt, in denen häufig genug aus dem Tierreich abgeleitete Kosenamen wie Nilstute, Giraffe, Gazelle, Pferd oder gar „Rossilein" auftauchen. Selbst auf von Adorno ausgewählten Postkartenmotiven finden sich Giraff…
The Work of Art and Its Formal and Genealogical Determinations: Benjamin's “Cool Place” between Kant and Nietzsche
April 01 2010 The Work of Art and Its Formal and Genealogical Determinations: Benjamin's “Cool Place” between Kant and Nietzsche Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter is Director of the Graduate Program in Critical Theory and Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. Among the most recent of his books are Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life (Stanford University Press, 2007) and the e…
The Artist and the Terrorist, or the Paintable and the Unpaintable: Gerhard Richter and the Baader-Meinhof Group
This article is offered as a small demonstration of what art has to say about terror and violence. It focuses on the German artist Gerhard Richter and his cycle of paintings on the life and death of the homegrown terrorists of the Baader-Meinhof group, October 18, 1977 (1988). Following Richter, it explores whether atrocity is “paintable.” It investigates the encounter between the artist and the terrorist and proposes that Richter's is a profound…
Can Anything Be Rescued by Defending It? Benjamin with Adorno
This article pursues the possibility of a non-reified thinking in the act of "rescuing" through critique. If the objective of such thinking were to rescue something without thereby becoming affirmative, to retain something that is about to disappear for good without thereby becoming an instrument of apologia for the status quo, then what kind of relationship can be imagined to connect the sphere of vigilant thought, along with the critical writin…
Unsettling Photography: Kafka, Derrida, Moses
Aesthetic Theory and Nonpropositional Truth Content in Adorno
Research Article| February 01 2006 Aesthetic Theory and Nonpropositional Truth Content in Adorno Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 119–135. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2005-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gerhard Richter; Aesthetic Theory and Nonpropositional Truth Content in A…
Crude thinking rethought: Reflections on a Brechtian Concept
Miniatures: Harun Farocki and the Cinematic Non-Event
The Artist and the Terrorist, or the Paintable and the Unpaintable: Gerhard Richter and the Baader-Meinhof Group
This article is offered as a small demonstration of what art has to say about terror and violence. It focuses on the German artist Gerhard Richter and his cycle of paintings on the life and death of the homegrown terrorists of the Baader-Meinhof group, October 18, 1977 (1988). Following Richter, it explores whether atrocity is “paintable.” It investigates the encounter between the artist and the terrorist and proposes that Richter's is a profound…
Crude thinking rethought: Reflections on a Brechtian Concept
Beitrage zur Geologie der Westlichen Mediterrangebiete
Impure Reason: Dialectic of Enlightenment in Germany
Siegfried Kracauer and the Folds of Friendship
The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
Mimesis and mimetology - Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe, Martin Jay Aesthetic Theory's mimesis of Walter Benjamin, Shierry Weber Nicholsen Benjamin, Adorno, surrealism, Richard Wolin concept, image, name - on Adorno's Utopia of Knowledge, Rolf Teidemann concerning the central idea of Adorno's philosophy, Rudiger Bubner why rescue semblance? metaphysical experience and the possibilities of ethics, J.M. Bernstein Adorno's notion of natural beauty - a r…
"Holocaust and Katzenjammer. Lektureprotokolle zu Art Spiegelmans Comic "Maus
Adorno's Scars, Bloch's Anacoluthon
Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, newly translated, edited, and with a translator's introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997)Ernst Bloch, Literary Essays, trans. Andrew Joron, et. al. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998
Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography
Benjamin's "Ghosts": Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory
Richter, Gerhard, ed.Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. 365 pp. $55.00 hardcover, $24.95 paperback. In recent years, the philological study of Benjamin's writings has increasingly been supplemented by the larger project of conceptually translating his concepts into other disciplines, cultural domains, or methodological frameworks. Thus, sociology, political…
Enduring Freedom: War, Corporate Television, and the Delusion of the Delusion
Research Article| June 01 2003 Enduring Freedom: War, Corporate Television, and the Delusion of the Delusion Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 73–97. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.14.1.73 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gerhard Richter; Enduring Freedom: War, Corporate Television, and the Delusion of the Delusion. Qui Parl…
Miniatures: Harun Farocki and the Cinematic Non-Event
Crude thinking rethought: Reflections on a Brechtian Concept
Aesthetic Theory and Nonpropositional Truth Content in Adorno
Research Article| February 01 2006 Aesthetic Theory and Nonpropositional Truth Content in Adorno Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 119–135. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2005-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gerhard Richter; Aesthetic Theory and Nonpropositional Truth Content in A…
Unsettling Photography: Kafka, Derrida, Moses
The Work of Art and Its Formal and Genealogical Determinations: Benjamin's “Cool Place” between Kant and Nietzsche
April 01 2010 The Work of Art and Its Formal and Genealogical Determinations: Benjamin's “Cool Place” between Kant and Nietzsche Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter is Director of the Graduate Program in Critical Theory and Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. Among the most recent of his books are Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life (Stanford University Press, 2007) and the e…
The Artist and the Terrorist, or the Paintable and the Unpaintable: Gerhard Richter and the Baader-Meinhof Group
This article is offered as a small demonstration of what art has to say about terror and violence. It focuses on the German artist Gerhard Richter and his cycle of paintings on the life and death of the homegrown terrorists of the Baader-Meinhof group, October 18, 1977 (1988). Following Richter, it explores whether atrocity is “paintable.” It investigates the encounter between the artist and the terrorist and proposes that Richter's is a profound…
Can Anything Be Rescued by Defending It? Benjamin with Adorno
This article pursues the possibility of a non-reified thinking in the act of "rescuing" through critique. If the objective of such thinking were to rescue something without thereby becoming affirmative, to retain something that is about to disappear for good without thereby becoming an instrument of apologia for the status quo, then what kind of relationship can be imagined to connect the sphere of vigilant thought, along with the critical writin…
Die Erbschaft der Konstellation. Adorno und Hegel
Die Erbschaft der Konstellation.Adorno und Hegel Gerhard Richter (bio) Daß die Erfahrungswelt Theodor W. Adornos von zoologischen Motiven und Tiernamen durchzogen war, ist spätestens seit der Veröffentlichung seiner Briefe an die Eltern bekannt, in denen häufig genug aus dem Tierreich abgeleitete Kosenamen wie Nilstute, Giraffe, Gazelle, Pferd oder gar „Rossilein" auftauchen. Selbst auf von Adorno ausgewählten Postkartenmotiven finden sich Giraff…
Gespräch über Bäume
Gerhard Richter unternimmt eine Selbstvergewisserung in Bezug auf die Position des Intellektuellen in der heutigen Gesellschaft. Ausgehend von Brechts berühmten Versen, in denen ein Gespräch über Bäume ein Schweigen über unzählige Untaten mit sich bringt, misst Richter die widersprüchlichen Implikationen des kritischen Sprechens aus, indem er das brechtsche Bild des Baumes fortschreibt und dabei auch auf Positionen von Adorno und Marcuse zurückgr…
The Debt of Inheritance Revisited: Heidegger's Mortgage, Derrida's Appraisal
This essay revisits the question of inheritance, legacy and handing-down (das Erbe) as it is developed in Heidegger's Being and Time. A careful reading especially of paragraphs 6 and 72–74 allows us to consider whether Heidegger's notion of inheritance might not be far more resistant to modes of premature closure—such as its apparent exclusion of das Erbe from the workings of Destruktion—than readers often have perceived it to be. In a second ste…
The Artwork without Cardinal Direction: Notes on Orientation in Adorno
The Artwork without Cardinal Direction:Notes on Orientation in Adorno Gerhard Richter (bio) The German systems theorist Niklas Luhmann once described the attitude and altitude of abstract thought as follows: “This theory design pushes the presentation [Darstellung] to unusually high levels of abstraction. Our flight must take place above the clouds, and we must reckon with a rather thick cloud cover. We must rely on our instruments. Occasionally,…
The Prize and Price of Thinking and Thanking: False Life, Living On
The Prize and Price of Thinking and Thanking:False Life, Living On Gerhard Richter Thinking and thanking form an uneasy couplet. As Nietzsche, the great doubter and relentless interrogator of ingratitude, cautions us in Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits: “He who gives a great gift encounters no gratitude [findet keine Dankbarkeit]; for the recipient, simply by accepting it, already has too much of a burden [denn der Beschenkte hat sch…
Interpretation, Revolution, Inheritance: Benjamin with Marx
Interpretation, Revolution, Inheritance:Benjamin with Marx Gerhard Richter (bio) In Section III of her seminal if controversial reading of Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt rightfully remarks upon Benjamin's engagement with what she diagnoses, here and elsewhere in her works, as a certain Traditionsbruch, or "break in tradition." She reminds her readers that, insofar as "the past has been transmitted as tradition, it possesses authority," and to the…
Introductory Note
Introductory Note Kristina Mendicino (bio) and Gerhard Richter, Guest Editors (bio) "It is dangerous to be an heir." —Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra The articles gathered in this special issue of MLN are, for the most part, based on papers delivered at an international conference entitled "Inheriting the Frankfurt School," organized by Kristina Mendicino and Gerhard Richter at Brown University on 23–24 September 2016. The conference explicitly…
He Who Inherits, Interprets: 14 Theses
He Who Inherits, Interprets:14 Theses Gerhard Richter (bio) [End Page 474] I He who inherits, interprets. One can even go one step further and aver: The inheritor stands before an enigma that, like an especially difficult and refractory text, resists the endowment of meaning. He who inherits in the emphatic sense, that is, he who is able to open up to the moment of a radical inheriting, will not be able to cease to interpret, and every true inter…
Give the Word: Responses to Werner Hamacher's "95 Theses on Philology"
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