Gadamer on Celan: Who Am I and Who Are You? and Other Essays (SUNY (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (901 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0791432300 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Refreshing Couldn't disagree more. I found this book to be a great, direct attempt to look at Celan's work and to figure out what these poems (from "Breathturn" if I remember correctly) were doing, and what/how they were meaning/saying. Gadamer's approach is eanest and genuine, as in "Here we have wonderful, strange contemporary poetry, what do we make of it?" He doesn't bring any baggage to the work and attempts to d. Academic hubris has its way with a noble poet Either you get Gadamer or you don't. Either you understand/respect/follow him out of the Heideggerian 'Clearing' or you start hacking therough the dense and tangled undergrowth and make your own path. I've never felt much affinity for his magnum opus, 'Truth and Method,' but then, all of Heidegger's belabored philosophical children leave me a tad cold Hannah, Karl, Hans The only one I felt had something new
Richard Heinemann received his PH.D. . Bruce Krajewski is Associate Professor of English and Film at Laurentian University. Hans-Georg Gadamer is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Heidelberg. Bruns is William and Hazel White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. in German Studies
Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: German
Who Am I and Who Are You?demonstrates Gadamer's continual engagement with the key figures of twentieth-century thought, and his responsiveness to the challenges of modernist art and its various affronts to hermeneutics.. This is accessible commentary on a notoriously difficult poet.Gadamer on Celan makes all of Hans-Georg Gadamer's published writings on Paul Celan's poetry available in English for the first time. Gadamer's commentaries on Celan's work are explicitly meant for a general audience, and they are further testimony to Celan's growing importance in world literature since the Second World War. Celan's poetry has attracted the attention of many well-known figures, including Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Edmond Jabe`s, Otto Poggeler, and George Steiner. Brings together all of Gadamer's published writings on Celan's poetry, and makes them available in English for the first time. As Steiner has said, "It will take a long time for our sensibilities to apprehend poetry of these dimensions and this radicality." Gadamer's commentaries will help readers to listen to Celan's poetry, and to become acquainted with his only book-length commentary on a poet, using the best example of Gadamer's thinking on the relationship of philosophy and poetry.This book also contains a translation of Who Am I and Who Are You?, the centerpiece of Gadamer's most important philosophical project since the publicati