Anselm Haverkamp

Proceeding from the state of affairs in 20th-century criticism and aesthetics (Benjamin, Adorno, Blumenberg, Merleau-Ponty), the epistemology of representation (Whitehead, Canguilhem, Bachelard, Rheinberger) is revised with respect to critical consequences (Derrida, Marin, de Man, Agamben).