Language and Culture after the Holocaust

Geoffrey H. Hartman

1997

The concept of a resurrected culture after Auschwitz is illusory and contradictory, and every construct that still comes into being has to pay a bitter price because of that. But since the world survived its own ruin, art is as necessary to it as the unconscious recording of its history.

—Adorno, “Those Nineteen Twenties”

Even though “art is…

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Geoffrey H. Hartman

1929–2016

Geoffrey H. Hartman was born in Frankfurt and was sent to England during World War II. He was an American literary theorist and professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at Yale University. A poet, editor, and theorist, he was the author of numerous books and articles on midrash, William Wordsworth, and the Holocaust.

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