Poetic Faith and Stupidity in the Face of Disaster – On Paul Celan’s “Twelve Years”
I am a(n) (c)academic (as the post-Holocaust writer Raymond Federman used to quip). One of the things that I am astonished by is the pride some of my colleagues take in showing how intelligent they are. Few of them will admit to “becoming” or “being” stupid. But I would suggest that with people like NYU […]