- Hardcover: 190 pages
- Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr (March 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0791432297
- ISBN-13: 978-0791432297
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,202,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Refreshing, April 19 2012
By vv - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gadamer on Celan: Who Am I and Who Are You? and Other Essays (Paperback)
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 deal with it on its own terms, a rare attempt in dealings with contemporary writing that so often approaches a text with it's mind, and ideological agenda, fully formed.
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Academic hubris has its way with a noble poet, Sep 23 2004
By Campbell Roark "tri-zeta" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gadamer on Celan: Who Am I and Who Are You? and Other Essays (Paperback)
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 to say was Levinas. So let's just say that, 'ideologically' I'm not an enemy- just a contender.You buy this- you get jargon juggling. Lots of jargon juggling. Little substance. I wonder what Celan would have made of this, as he too was very influenced by H's opus, Being and Time, he kept an annotated copy with him. This 'engagement,' as it is described, is another shred of soulless, brittle, and all-too obscurantist work that drains the lifeblood of Celan, page by page. The essay, "Who Am I and Who Are You?" Didn't seem to get anywhere on that topic. Endlessly tangential. Painfully dry.
It's strikes me as odd that Celan seemd able to draw upon Heidegger more deeply and interestingly than Lowith, Gadamer, et al... Most academic reformulation, elaborations of the H-ian legacy come off as tendentious posturing- weilding academic lingo as a blunt plank with which one beats one's readers into unconsciousness.
Beware. Get the Felstiner work, if anything. Or better yet... Let Celan speak for himself.
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