5. Afterness and Translation: The Politics of Carrying Across

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: The Logic of Afterness 1
4. 1. Afterness and Modernity: A Genealogical Note 27
5. 2. Afterness and Critique: A Paradigmatic Case 39
6. 3. Afterness and Aesthetics: End Without End 54
7. 4. Afterness and Rettung : Can Anything Be Rescued by Defending It? 72
8. 5. Afterness and Translation: The Politics of Carrying Across 88
9. 6. Afterness and the Image (I): Unsettling Photography 118
10. 7. Afterness and the Image (II): Image Withdrawal 139
11. 8. Afterness and Experience (I): Can Hope Be Disappointed? 154
12. 9. Afterness and Experience (II): Crude Thinking Rethought 169
13. 10. Afterness and Experience (III): Mourning, Memory, and the Fictions of Anteriority 186
14. 11. Afterness and Empty Space: No Longer and Not Yet 199
15. Afterwards: After-Words 206
16. Acknowledgments 211
17. Notes 213
18. Index 247
19. Backmatter 261