On the Poetic Dispute between Paul Celan and Johannes Bobrowski
... author in German history, Hamann, whom Goethe considered to be “the brightest mind of his time” and the future “forefather and teacher” of all Germans. In this context, the poetic dialogue between Celan and Bobrowski concerning the German ‘language after Auschwitz’ could be seen as an effort to prevent its complete deontologization, due to what the philosopher Heidegger referred to as “the lack of holy names," stemming from “the defining characteristic of the present era of the world being ...
