{"product_id":"give-the-word","title":"Give the Word","description":"Werner Hamacher’s witty and elliptical \u003ci\u003e95 Theses on Philology\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the humanities-and particularly academic philology-that assume language to be a given entity rather than an event. In \u003ci\u003eGive the Word\u003c\/i\u003e eleven scholars of literature and philosophy (Susan Bernstein, MichÈle Cohen-Halimi, Peter Fenves, Sean Gurd, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Jan Plug, Gerhard Richter, Avital Ronell, Thomas Schestag, Ann Smock, and Vincent van Gerven Oei) take up the challenge presented by Hamacher’s theses. At the close Hamacher responds to them in a spirited text that elaborates on the context of his \u003ci\u003e95 Theses\u003c\/i\u003e and its rich theoretical and philosophical ramifications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The \u003ci\u003e95 Theses\u003c\/i\u003e, included in this volume, makes this collection a rich resource for the study and practice of “radical philology.” Hamacher’s philology interrupts and transforms, parting with tradition precisely in order to remain faithful to its radical but increasingly occluded core.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The contributors test Hamacher’s break with philology in a variety of ways, attempting a philological practice that does not take language as an object of knowledge, study, or even love. Thus, in responding to Hamacher’s \u003ci\u003eTheses\u003c\/i\u003e, the authors approach language that, because it can never be an object of any kind, awakens an unfamiliar desire. Taken together these essays problematize philological ontology in a movement toward radical reconceptualizations of labor, action, and historical time.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244840898904,"sku":"9781496206527","price":72.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781496206527.jpg?v=1783509342","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/give-the-word","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}