Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword VII
3. Contents IX
4. Translator’s Introduction XI
5. I Approaches to Paul Celan
6. 1 Poppy and Memory 1
7. 2 The Feast of the Gods: A Mythological Theme in Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann 11
8. 3 Paul Celan as Translator 37
9. 4 Poetics of Memory in Paul Celan 49
10. 5 The Inscription of the Catastrophe 61
11. 6 Stations of Reading in the Late Word 77
12. 7 Else Lasker-Schüler, Rose Ausländer, Paul Celan: Three Jerusalem Poems 83
13. 8 The Passage of Trumpets 99
14. 9 When Language Becomes Voice 113
15. 10 A Note on the Conversation in the Mountains 131
16. 11 Paul Celan’s Angels 133
17. 12 Six Poems by Paul Celan 137
18. II Displacements
19. 1 Goethe and the Tradition 149
20. 2 Goethe’s The New Paris 159
21. 3 Georg Büchner: Danton’s Death – Tragedy and Revolution 179
22. 4 Sketch for an Anatomy of the Witz 199
23. III Philosophical Figures of Jewish Modernity
24. 1 Normative and Critical Modernity 215
25. 2 The Critique of Ontology in Franz Rosenzweig 229
26. 3 Judaism and Christianity in Franz Rosenzweig: Two Forms of Eternity 249
27. 4 Walter Benjamin and the Crisis of Tradition 265
28. 5 Gershom Scholem: What Future Is There for Theology? 289
29. 6 Emmanuel Lévinas: Beyond Being 309
30. Bibliography 333
31. Acknowledgements 339