Uncontainable Legacies
Theses on Intellectual, Cultural, and Political Inheritance
Published on 30. September 2021
240 pages
978-1-4744-8783-2 (ISBN)
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In a series of evocatively titled theses, including 'Wrinkles', 'Inheriting a Feeling', 'Weight of the World' and 'Making Treasures Speak', Gerhard Richter engages the quintessentially human dilemma of how to receive an intellectual, cultural or political
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Content
- Cover
- Front matter
- Contents
- 1. The One Who Inherits, Interprets
- 2. Thetic Inheritance
- 3. Ideal Reader
- 4. No Conservatism
- 5. Triple Temporalities
- 6. Generations
- 7. The Difficulty of Using Freely What Is One's Own
- 8. Elusive Inheritance
- 9. Inheriting a Feeling
- 10. Who Is the Human Being?
- 11. Homo Hereditans
- 12. Ruptured Temporalities
- 13. Language
- 14. Other Languages, Languages of the Other
- 15. We Are What We Inherit
- 16. Saying
- 17. Always Already
- 18. Ghostly Traces
- 19. Undecidability
- 20. Question Marks
- 21. Endings, Beginnings
- 22. Ends of Time
- 23. Life and Death
- 24. Leave-Taking
- 25. Orphaned Remains
- 26. Masterless Legacy
- 27. Unwanted Inheritance
- 28. The Original Unwanted Inheritance
- 29. Unwanted Inheritance, Redux
- 30. Refusals
- 31. Hegelian Labors of Inheritance
- 32. Unreadabilities of Inheritance
- 33. Wrinkles
- 34. Singularities of Misinheriting
- 35. Suspended Differentiations
- 36. The Past Is Not Past
- 37. Reinvention I
- 38. Reinvention II
- 39. Paleonomies
- 40. Imposition
- 41. Being Born Posthumously
- 42. Grave Cares
- 43. Un héritier
- 44. Inheriting Myths
- 45. Backward and Forward
- 46. Relating to an Inheritance Without Imitating
- 47. Deniers
- 48. Something Is Taking Its Course
- 49. Coming After
- 50. Inheriting Learning
- 51. Institutions
- 52. Nonexplicative Bequeathing
- 53. Explanations Come to an End Somewhere
- 54. Time after Time
- 55. Inheriting Binaries
- 56. Refusals Redux
- 57. Recognizing the Self
- 58. Mitwelt
- 59. Refusals of Fashion
- 60. Refusals, One More Time
- 61. Keeping Watch
- 62. Palliatives
- 63. Little Greeks
- 64. Inheriting Inheritance
- 65. Anxieties of Inheritance
- 66. Living On
- 67. There May Be No Heir
- 68. Chiseling
- 69. Arresting Motion
- 70. Elective Affinities
- 71. Letting Sentences Run Risks
- 72. The Strength That No Certainty Can Match
- 73. Fatherless Inheritance
- 74. Speaking With the Dead
- 75. Two Sides of the Coin
- 76. The Past Conditional
- 77. Humic Inheritance
- 78. Selections
- 79. Who Inherits?
- 80. Dwarfs on the Shoulders of Giants
- 81. Translation I
- 82. Translation II
- 83. Haunting Inheritance
- 84. To Read What Was Never Written
- 85. Inheriting a Future
- 86. Archival Traces
- 87. Invisibilities
- 88. Refunctionalizing I
- 89. Refunctionalizing II
- 90. Forgetting One's Language, Making History
- 91. Inheriting a Contested Provenance
- 92. Reading Inheriting
- 93. Understanding Tropes
- 94. Je suis, I am - Do You Follow?
- 95. Parusia
- 96. Possibilities of Prosopopoeia
- 97. What's the Difference, Kafka?
- 98. Inheritance Would Be a Good Idea
- 99. Quotation
- 100. Today
- 101. Teacups
- 102. Debts
- 103. No Debts?
- 104. Parental Riddles
- 105. Mothers of the Heir
- 106. Children of the Heir
- 107. Fathers (Worrisome Bequeathing)
- 108. Inherited Jouissance
- 109. Self-Inheritance of Time I
- 110. Self-Inheritance of Time II
- 111. Applied Self-Inheritance
- 112. Self-Inheritance Tripped Up
- 113. Perverse Inheritance
- 114. Unreasonable Reason
- 115. Faulty Origins
- 116. Heirs of the Ages
- 117. Inheriting the Sound of Silence I
- 118. Inheriting the Sound of Silence II
- 119. Fibers
- 120. Inheriting a Question Mark
- 121. Not for Cowards
- 122. Weight of the World
- 123. Making Treasures Speak
- 124. Loss
- 125. Generalized Capitalism
- 126. Nostalgia for the Future
- 127. Rich Inner Life
- 128. Doxa
- 129. Side-Taking
- 130. Detours and Forest Paths
- 131. Stone
- 132. Not Done
- 133. Proof
- 134. Creating Concepts
- 135. Those Days
- 136. Untimeliness
- 137. Heir to Come
- 138. Different Heir-Selves
- 139. Possible Failures
- 140. Partial Inheritance
- 141. No Repetition
- 142. How It Goes
- 143. Not for Sale
- 144. Wall Street Inherits Das Kapital
- 145. The Sibling Rivalry of Inherited Space
- 146. Inheriting the Wrong Words
- 147. Creative Solitudes
- 148. End Times
- 149. Inheriting Extinction
- Reference Matter
