Das Undarstellbare darstellen

Více o knize

Anne Duden is a prominent German writer whose reputation grew in the 1980s with avant-garde works like Übergang (1982) and Das Judasschaf (1985). Her experimental poetry collections, Steinschlag (1993) and Hingegend (1999), received critical acclaim, and her literary-philosophical essays on aesthetics, art, and music were published throughout the 1990s. Duden has received several prestigious awards, including the Berlin Literature Prize (1999) and the Heinrich-Böll Literature Prize (2003). This comprehensive study of her complete works analyzes the evolution of her writing, explores connections among her texts, and offers new interpretations. The book emphasizes the political and philosophical dimensions of Duden’s work through theoretically informed examinations, utilizing radical philosophical models from thinkers like Nietzsche, Adorno, and Benjamin. It addresses the central paradox of her writing: how to articulate the perspective of the excluded without resorting to the language of exclusion. Additionally, the study critiques aspects of Western culture reflected in Duden's texts and engages with ongoing theoretical discussions about artistic representation in post-Holocaust culture. This work will appeal to scholars in aesthetics, cultural criticism, visual culture, philosophy, contemporary avant-garde narratives, and German Studies.