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The Question In Celan's Poetry (Howard Caygill)

CRMEP Podcasts
28 January 2021
15m 45s

Paul Celan's poetry has been in constant dialogue with philosophy: he was a passionate reader of philosophy and was passionately read by contemporary philosophers. In this podcast Howard Caygill reflects on the role of the question in Celan's poetry as a point of intersection between poetic and philosophical language – a point where both are exposed to the violence of Twentieth Century history.