Jeremy Adler

King's College London | KCL · Department of German

This article considers the history of the concept of human dignity from its origins in the Bible and in Stoic philosophy down to the twentieth century. The major thinkers who contributed to the development of the idea are examined, including Pico della Mirandola, Pufendorf, Kant, and Broch. Similarly, the views of contemporary philosophers such as...

Es gibt heutzutage verschiedene Rahmen für das Studium der Weltliteratur, die über die normalen Mittel der Kritik hinausgehen und eine vergleichende Perspektive beinhalten. Man denke vor allem an den Begriff „Netzwerk“ oder an das Phänomen der „Globalisierung“. Ich möchte jedoch ganz allgemein den Standpunkt der „vergleichenden Studien“ (comparativ...

Since 1945, authors and scholars have intensely debated what form literary fiction about the Holocaust should take. The works of H. G. Adler (1910-1988) and W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), two modernist scholar-poets who settled in England but never met, present new ways of reconceptualizing the nature of witnessing, literary testimony, and the possibili...

It has largely escaped attention that Goethe played a major part in shaping the fiction of Henry James. James’s appreciation of Goethe is apparent from many statements, especially his fine review of Carlyle’s translation of Wilhelm Meister. From his first novel, Watch and Ward, via the great novel of his middle period, The Portrait of a Lady, to on...

The centenary of H.G. Adler’s birth provided a unique chance for scholars to present a reassessment of his work at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Schiller Nationalmuseum, Marbach. I would like to take this opportunity of thanking all those involved in the conference, both on the organizational and on the intellectual side, for making this event suc...

The Czech Jewish community exercised an influence on modern European culture quite disproportionate to its tiny size. Franz Kafka has become emblematic for a vanished world, but he was by no means the only Jew from the Czech lands who helped to shape modernity. Others included Gustav Mahler, Karl Kraus and Sigmund Freud, who unlike Kafka left their...

This chapter explains why one should consider H.G. Adler when debating on the Nazi genocide. Adler was an academic by profession, and then a poet later on, which profession he used to transpose his experiences of when he was transported to Auschwitz with his wife and mother. During his time in the camps, he gathered material for his poems and schol...

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