Book review: A Farewell to Truth, Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx

Abstract

context to the encounter with Anders's thought and especially usefully hints at why it remains so relatively unknown. To this extent Müller acts as a first-rate editor. But the role changes rather in his second order of contributions. Here, Anders is connected in an extremely useful way to contemporary debates about transhumanism, Kracauer's discussion of the Weimar salaried masses, and the significance of smart phones and the like, to develop an argument about how there is presently a condition of 'joyful surrender to painful obsolescence'. Müller has made it possible to think with Anders and, furthermore, provides an excellent introduction to some of the avenues such thinking might follow. This is a very important book, and hopefully it will lead to a higher profile for Anders's provocative and essential thought. We owe Christopher Müller a debt of intellectual gratitude.