Language:
German
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
70,3 (1996) 501-523
Keywords:
Adorno, Theodor W.,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Suggests that in his much-quoted utterance that "To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric", Adorno was condemning the return, which he saw happening in postwar Germany, to the culture which had brought forth the barbarism of the Holocaust, as though that had not changed everything. He added that philosophy was equally affected by this break in civilization, and cannot continue as before. Adorno uses the name "Auschwitz" because of the impossibility of finding a conceptual equivalent; he writes in the essay form (less binding than that of a philosophical treatise) and goes beyond inadequate rational discourse by using emotive rhetoric.
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