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Afterness figures of following in modern thought and aesthetics

Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of ""afterness"" is key to understanding the thought and aesthetics of modernity. He pursues such questions as what it means for something to ""follow"" something else and whether that which follows marks a clear break with what comes before. Or does that which follows tacitly perpetuate its predecessor as a consequence of its indebtedness to the terms and conditions of that from which it claims to have departed? Indeed, Richter asks, is not the very act of breaking with, and then following upon, a way of retroactively constru.

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