To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch.

Theodor Adorno

Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft

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Topic

Poetry Auschwitz The Holocaust

Author

Theodor Adorno

Source

Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft

Medium

Essay

Language

German

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

Germany Europe

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Citation

Adorno, Theodor. "Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft" ["An Essay on Cultural Criticism and Society."] Prismen, GS 10.1, 1955. Reprinted in Prisms, Translated by Samuel and Shierry Weber. MIT Press; London, 1967.

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In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

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Genre
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Language
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Time
1959 1950s 20th century
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Twain, Mark. The Autobiography of Mark Twain. Harper & Row, 1959, ch. 78.

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Among all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards.

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Speaker
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Source
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Medium
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Time
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This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
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Time
1883 1880s 19th century
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Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Ernst Schmeitzner, 1885, pt. 2, ch. 23.