Hölderlin after the catastrophe : Heidegger, Adorno, Brecht
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Hölderlin after the catastrophe : Heidegger, Adorno, Brecht
（Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin）
Camden House, 2008
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Hoelderlin after the Catastrophe
Conversation: Heidegger, "Das abendlandische Gesprach"
Polemic: Adorno, "Parataxis"
Citation: Brecht, Die Antigone des Sophokles
Epilogue: Three Anniversaries
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