Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
New German Critique
Angaben zur Quelle:
53 (1991) 3-18
Keywords:
Celan, Paul
;
Heidegger, Martin,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Focuses on Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's reading of Celan's poetry, in his "La poesie comme experience, " and particularly the poem "Todtnauberg" which is considered to be about Heidegger. Lacoue-Labarthe views the non-arrival of the "coming word" in the poem as symbolic of Heidegger's refusal throughout the postwar period to explain his involvement with National Socialism. Objects to the deconstructionist interpretation of history, which makes "Auschwitz" a metaphysical event, the end of a culture predicated on the notion of knowledge as technology, and Celan its victim. Contends that this diminishes Celan's Jewishness, the link between Celan's suffering and the tradition which Heidegger championed, and the singularity of the Holocaust.
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