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Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of linguistic data and their meanings. In these two texts, "95 Theses on Philology" and "For-Philology," Hamacher propounds a notion of generalized philology that is equivalent to the real production of linguistic utterances, and indeed utterances not limited to predicative or even discursive statements. Philology, in speaking for language where no clear and distinct language is given, exhibits and exposes the structure of language in general. The first text, "95 Theses on Philology," challenges academic philology as well as other disciplines across the humanities and sciences that "use" language, assuming it to be a given entity and not an event. The theses develop what Hamacher calls the "idea of philology" by describing the constitution of its objects, its relation to knowledge, its suspension of consciousness, and its freedom for what remains always still to be said.In "For-Philology," both speaking and writing, Hamacher argues, follow, discursively and non-discursively, the desire for language. Desire-phila-is the insatiable affect that drives the movement between utterances toward the next and the one after that. Desiring language-logos-means to respond to an alien utterance that precedes you, ignorant about where the path will lead, accepting loss and uncertainty, thinking in and through language and the lack of it, exceeding, returning, responding to others, cutting into and off what is to be said. In arguing this, Hamacher responds, directly or obliquely, to other philological thinkers such as Plato and Schlegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger, as well as to poets such as Rene Char, Francis Ponge, Paul Celan, and Friedrich Holderlin. Taken together, the essays of Minima Philologica constitute a manifesto for a new understanding of linguistic existence that breaks new ways of attending to language and those who live by it.

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Publié par

Fordham University Press

Date de parution

02 mars 2015

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MINIMA PHILOLOGICA

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I N V E N T I N G W R I T I N G T H E O R Y Jacques Lezra and Paul N orth, series editors

MINIMA PHILOLOGICA

WERNER HAMACHER

Translated byCATHARINE DIEHL AND JASON GROVES

Fordham University Press

New York 2015

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“Ninety-Five Theses on Philology”: This work is reprinted from “95 Theses on Philology” (Diacritics39.1 [Spring 2009]: 25–44). Excerpts from it were published on invitation by Jonathan Culler and Cathy Caruth in a special edition of thePMLA(125.4 [2010]: 994–1001). It was originally published by Urs Engeler as Roughbooks 008: Werner Hamacher,95 Thesen zur Philologie(2010).

“For—Philology”: This work was originally part of a lecture series on philological questions organized by Jürgen Paul Schwindt at the University of Heidelberg in 2002–3. It appeared in the published version of the colloquiumWas ist eine philologische Frage?—Beiträge zur Erkundung einer theoretischen Einstellung. Jürgen Paul Schwindt, ed. (Suhrkamp 2009: 21–60). It was also published independently by Urs Engeler as Roughbooks 004: Werner Hamacher,Für—die Philologie(2009).

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CONTENTS

PART I: Ninety-Five Theses on Philology

PART II: For—Philology

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NINETYFIVE THESES ON PHILOLOGY

—Translated by Catharine Diehl

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