Gerhard Richter¿is a professor of German studies and comparative literature at Brown University.¿He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Inheriting Walter Benjamin and Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics. Ann Smock is a professor emerita of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of two books, including What Is There to Say?¿(Nebraska, 2003), and¿has translated several others. An influential theorist, philosopher, and literary critic, Werner Hamacher (1948–2017) was a professor at the University of Frankfurt and founder of its Institute of General and Comparative Literary Studies.
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Gerhard Richter is a professor of German studies and comparative literature at Brown University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Inheriting Walter Benjamin and Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics. Ann Smock is a professor emerita of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of two books, including What Is There to Say? (Nebraska, 2003), and has translated several others. An influential theorist, philosopher, and literary critic, Werner Hamacher (1948–2017) was a professor at the University of Frankfurt and founder of its Institute of General and Comparative Literary Studies.
 

95 Theses on Philology / 95 Thesen zur Philologie
Werner Hamacher, translated by Catharine Diehl
Introduction
Gerhard Richter and Ann Smock
Part 1. Balances1. Was heißt Lesen?—What Is Called Reading?
Gerhard Richter
2. Language-Such-That-It’s-Spoken
Michèle Cohen-Halimi, translated by Ann Smock
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Jan Plug
4. Catch a Wave: Sound, Poetry, Philology
Sean Gurd
Part 2. Times
5. Einmal ist Keinmal: On the 76th of Werner Hamacher’s 95 Theses for Philology
Ann Smock
6. Rereading tempus fugit
Thomas Schestag
7. Language on Pause: Hamacher’s Seconds of Celan and Daive
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
Part 3. Categories
8. The Right Not to Complain: A Philology of Kinship
Avital “Irony” Ronell
9. The Category of Philology
Peter Fenves
10. The Philía of Philology
Susan Bernstein
11. Defining the Indefinite
Daniel Heller-Roazen
Part 4. Responding to Responses
12. What Remains to Be Said: On Twelve and More Ways of Looking at Philology
Werner Hamacher, translated by Kristina Mendicino
Contributors
Index