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Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger: An Unresolved Conversation, 1951–1970
James K. Lyon
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Hardback. Explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. This book centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker who respected him and promoted his poetry. It describes how the poet and the philosopher read and responded to each other's work. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
This work explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan, regarded by many as the most important European poet after 1945, and Martin Heidegger, perhaps the most influential figure in twentieth-century philosophy. It centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker who respected him and at times promoted his poetry. Celan, although strongly affected by Heidegger's writings, struggled to reconcile his admiration of Heidegger's ideas on literature with his revulsion at the thinker's Nazi past. That Celan and Heidegger communicated with each other over a number of years, and in a controversial ... Read more
This work explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan, regarded by many as the most important European poet after 1945, and Martin Heidegger, perhaps the most influential figure in twentieth-century philosophy. It centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker who respected him and at times promoted his poetry. Celan, although strongly affected by Heidegger's writings, struggled to reconcile his admiration of Heidegger's ideas on literature with his revulsion at the thinker's Nazi past. That Celan and Heidegger communicated with each other over a number of years, and in a controversial ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801883026
SKU
V9780801883026
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About James K. Lyon
James K. Lyon is a professor of German at Brigham Young University.
Reviews for Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger: An Unresolved Conversation, 1951–1970
Lyon's study is a thorough and convincingly argued study... one that will undoubtedly provide the basis for future studies of the relationship between the poet Celan and the philosopher Heidegger.
Mark Grzeskowiak Seminar: Journal of Germanic Studies 2008 Lyon's scholarship throughout is thorough, and well collected in this readable account.
Richard Hamilton Philosophy in Review 2008
Mark Grzeskowiak Seminar: Journal of Germanic Studies 2008 Lyon's scholarship throughout is thorough, and well collected in this readable account.
Richard Hamilton Philosophy in Review 2008