Lutz Hagestedt
University of Rostock
The Void and I.
Gottfried Benn’s Poetry of Thought and the Intellectual
Wasteland after the European Catastrophe
In his poems as well as his essays, Gottfried Benn repeatedly brought himself
to the outskirts of society and aesthetics - and yet ultimately, he could hold his ground. Perhaps that sounds paradoxical, however, in the context of intellectual poetry, such paradoxes are nothing out of the ordinary - in fact, they are to be expected. Moreover,
they correspond with the common pattern which the life of a scandalous intellectual, who read Nietzsche (and wrote poems on Nietzsche), deemed Darwin to be a ‘midwife’ and at the same time dismissed the theories of evolution, might follow.
Lutz Hagestedt is Professor at Rostock University and one of Germany’s leading
experts on contemporary and modern literature.
Thursday 19th May 2016, 5pm
University College Cork, CACSSS Mary Ryan Seminar Room, O’Rahilly Building G27
ALL WELCOME!
Gert Hofmann,
Dr. phil., Dr. phil. habil., PD
Head, Department of German
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
O'Rahilly Building, 1.40
National University of Ireland, Cork
Cork, Eire
Tel: +353-21-4902283 (office), +353-21-4902078 (secretary)
E-Mail:
[log in to unmask]
http://ucc-ie.academia.edu/GertHofmann