7:00pm, 29 November 2006
Controversial and provocative, Heine’s critical voice does not only tease and sting, but poses questions we still face today. Defying the categories of romanticism, modernism, and post modernity, his «irreverence» is the sign of a post-contemporary sensibility with a liberating force.
Willi Goetschel is professor of German and philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Spinoza’s Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine (2004) and Constituting Critique: Kant’s Writing as Critical Praxis (1994) and the editor of the collected works of Hermann Levin Goldschmidt.
