Minima Philologica

Werner Hamacher (1948-2017) is one of the most famous philosophers and philologists in Germany, the founder of the Institute of Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Goethe in Frankfurt-on-Main. He is often attributed to the circle of such thinkers as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luke Nansy and Georgio Agamben. Werner Hamacher is the most significant post-structuralist philosopher who has ever written in German. In addition, he is a form -forming author in American and German Germanicism and philosophy of culture, he owns the widely known and insightful comments on Walter Benjamin"s texts and influential work about Kant, Hegel, Kleist, Celan and others. Many of his articles have become classical and translated into several languages. The book “Minima Philologica”, theoretically justifying the need for philology, consists of two parts: “95 theses of philology”, expressed in the form of philosophical aphorism and continuing the important tradition of Friedrich Schlegel and Theodor Adorno, and the essay “For Philology”, in which the theoretical basis of philology It is discussed in a prosaic form on the example of the poem by Paul Tselan about the power of the language