Platons Macht Uber Die Deutsche Literatur

Plato's dialogues are scenes of cunning narrative strategies and dramaturgical scenarios. His criticism of the poets goes hand in hand with an astonishing literary refinement, the relevance of which, admittedly, has frequently been subject to discussion. Writers, in particular, have creatively taken up and carried forward the complexities of its procedure. The impulses of the 18th century and Romanticism have been differentiated in classical modernism. Taking recourse to Soren Kierkegaard and Rudolf Kassner, among others, eminent authors such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht and Friedrich Durrenmatt, and especially Franz Kafka and Ingeborg Bachmann, provide ample evidence of the extent to which writers of literature have read Plato as an author of modernity.