Vzkaz v láhvi: Paul Celan a Martin Heidegger

• Authors: Ivan Blecha

Title variants

EN

Message in a bottle: Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger

DE

Flaschenpost: Paul Celan und Martin Heidegger

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the problematic relationship between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. The two knew and respected each other intellectually, but the obstacle in their relationship was Heidegger’s involvement in the Nazi movement, which was unacceptable to Celan as a direct witness to the Holocaust. The main difference between them was in their view of the role of language: Heidegger wanted to use ‘poetic’ thought to overcome the crisis of metaphysics and reformulate the question of being, while Celan to give a voice to all the martyred. Though Celan never succeeded in getting Heidegger to apologize in any way for his involvement with the Nazis, his moral superiority – both in his thought world and during their mutual encounters – is obvious.

Keywords

CS

Martin Heidegger; Paul Celan; holokaust; filosofie a poezie; básnické myšlení; Todesfuge; Todtnauberg

EN

Martin Heidegger; Paul Celan; holocaust; philosophy and poetry; poetic thinking; Todesfuge; Todtnauberg

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 84
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 56-75
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ivan Blecha

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic