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Hölderlin After the Catastrophe: Heidegger -- Adorno -- Brecht

by Robert Savage
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781571133205
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Camden House (NY)
  • Publisher Imprint: Camden House (NY)
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  • Pages: 250
  • Original Price: GBP 85.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 522 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / German

Toward the end of the Second World War, the works of the great German poet Friedrich H�lderlin were heavily exploited by Nazi propaganda as a source of spiritual strength for the war-weary German people. Once the fires had burned out, scholars attempted to absolve H�lderlin of any responsibility for his wartime (mis)appropriation. Only a few saw that his work would have to be reread in the light of the iniquities that had been said and done in his name. This book examines how H�lderlin was taken up by three such thinkers, among the most influential and controversial of their time: Martin Heidegger, Theodor W. Adorno, and Bertolt Brecht. It extrapolates from their writings on the poet three irreconcilable paradigms of reception -- conversation, polemic, and citation -- that are of significance for the broader project of working through the tarnished German cultural legacy after 1945. In each case, H�lderlin is examined as the occasion for salvaging that legacy after, from, and in view of the catastrophe. This first full-length study of H�lderlin's postwar reception will be of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of German literature, European philosophy, the politics of cultural memory, and critical theory.

ROBERT SAVAGE is ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Savage, Robert: - Robert Savage is ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Melbourne, Australia.

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