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Hoelderlin after the Catastrophe - Heidegger -- Adorno -- Brecht (Hardcover)
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Hoelderlin after the Catastrophe - Heidegger -- Adorno -- Brecht (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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The first book-length study of Hoelderlin's postwar reception and a
case study of Germanistik. Toward the end of the Second World War,
the works of the great German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin were
heavily exploited by Nazi propaganda as a source of spiritual
strength for the war-weary German people. Once the fires had
burnedout, scholars attempted to absolve Hoelderlin 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 Hoelderlin 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,
Hoelderlinis examined as the occasion for salvaging that legacy
after, from, and in view of the catastrophe. This first full-length
study of Hoelderlin's postwar reception will be of interest to
students and scholars working in the fields ofGerman 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.
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