Thomas Kniesche (ed.), Contemporary German Crime Fiction: A Companion (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019)

A companion to contemporary German crime fiction for English-speaking audiences is overdue.  The goal of the volume is to make available to English-speaking audiences, to students, teachers and to a wider circle of interested readers, a series of articles on genres, topics, authors, and texts that will help them understand the scope and depth of German crime fiction, its ties to international traditions and also the specificity of the German context, its historical development and contemporary situation.

Gerhard Richter, Ästhetische Eigenzeiten und die Zeit des Bewahrens. Heidegger mit Arendt, Derrida und Kafka (Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2019)

The book analyzes the problem of aesthetic time--the experience and concept of time proper to a work of art--in relation to Heidegger's as-yet little understood notion of "preserving" a work. This elusive yet powerful concept of "preserving" becomes especially vivid when read in relation to writers such as Arendt, Derrida, and Kafka. The book appeared in a series published under the auspices of the prestigious Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the German Research Society, funded by the German states and the federal government.

Gerhard Richter, Thinking with Adorno: The Uncoercive Gaze (New York: Fordham UP, 2019)

What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. The central aim of Richter’s book is to examine how these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to think with Adorno—both alongside him and in relation to his diverse contexts and constellations. These contexts and constellations range from aesthetic theory to political critique, from the problem of judgment to the difficulty of inheriting a tradition, from the primacy of the object to the question of how to lead a right life within a wrong one

Gerhard Richter and Ann Smock (eds.), Give the Word : Responses to Werner Hamacher's 95 Theses on Philology (Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 2019)

In Give the Word 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 95 Theses and its rich theoretical and philosophical ramifications.