SOURCE: “After Adorno: Culture in the Wake of Catastrophe,” in New German Critique, Vol. 72, Fall, 1997, pp. 45-81.
In the following essay, Rothberg discusses the legacy and frequent misinterpretations of Adorno's assertion that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.”
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