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12 août 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.ledizioni.518
- isbn: 9788867052073
- eisbn: 9788867053568
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Maria Luisa Roli, « Archeologia della scienza e della storia del progresso in Mausoleum di H.M. Enzensberger », Ledizioni, ID : 10.4000/books.ledizioni.518
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In the 1970s H. M. Enzensberger revises the tradition of the Porträtgedicht and of the philosophical poetry (Gedankenlyrik ) in his collection of ballads Mausoleum, where he draws the biographies of many protagonists of mankind’s history. They belong to different fields: politics, art, philosophy, but most of them are inventors and scientists. Enzensberger shows the discrepancy between the achievements of scientific research and the aptitude for life or the dark sides of these personalities. In the wake of Benjamin’s, Adorno’s and Foucault’s theories about history he aims at demonstrating that progress and regression come together. Progress can also lead to barbarism and catastrophe.