Minima philologica /

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Author / Creator:Hamacher, Werner, author.
Uniform title:Works. Selections. English
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Description:161 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Idiom : inventing writing theory
Idiom (Fordham University Press)
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10466224
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Other uniform titles:Diehl, Catharine,
Groves, Jason,
Hamacher, Werner. 95 Thesen zur Philologie. English.
Hamacher, Werner. Für die Philologie. English.
ISBN:9780823265343 (hardback)
082326534X (hardback)
9780823265350 (paper)
0823265358 (paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-161).
Summary:"The texts in Minima Philologica, "95 Theses on Philology" and "For--Philology," release philology from institutional fetters, reveal its affinity with the nature of language, and teach us how to practice it on the model of poetry. Poetry is first philology because language routinely moves beyond the categories applied to it. To practice philology is to desire (philein) this frightening excess of language"--