Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin’s immensely influential essay, Toward the Critique of Violence, this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that…

The Messianic Reduction is the first study of Benjamin’s early philosophy that takes into consideration the full range of his work, with particular emphasis on its complex relation to phenomenology…

Poetry does not impose, it exposes itself, wrote Paul Celan. Werner Hamacher’s investigations into crucial texts of philosophical and literary modernity show that Celan’s apothegm is also valid for the…

In this book, literary critic and political theorist Werner Hamacher shows how Hoelderlin’s late poetry develops and enacts a radical theory of meaning that culminates in a unique, unprecedented, and…