Lecture: "Frankfurt Shul and Frankfurt School: Heine's Post-Contemporary Challenge"
A brown-back lunch talk by Dr. Willi Goetschel, Professor of German and Philosophy, University of Toronto.
Reading Heine with Critical Theory and Critical Theory with Heine, this talk explores the critical edge of Heine's comedic exposure that his interventions stage and addresses the question in which way Heine's approach prefigures central tenets of the Frankfurt School's critical thought. Heine's "Jewish comedy" (S. Prawer) may thus be understood as the critical exposure of the "Jewish" aspects Critical Theory did not care to openly address.
Sponsored by the Posen Foundation in Jewish Secularism, the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and the Program in German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
This lecture is free, open to the Five College Community and wheelchair accessible. For more information, email judaic@judnea.umass.edu or call 413-545-2550.