An intellectual biography about the writer and philosopher Susan Taubes (1928-1969) A study on the paradigmatic significance of a life and work in the 20th century

关于作家和哲学家苏珊·陶布斯（Susan Taubes，1928-1969）的知识分子传记对 20 世纪生活和工作的范式意义的研究

• 批准号: 248206498
• 负责人: Dr. Christina Pareigis
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2013-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/248206498?language=en
• 关键词: intellectual; biography; about; writer; philosopher

The character of the proposed monograph, an intellectual biography of the writer and philosopher Susan Taubes (1928-1969), goes well beyond that of a simple memoir in reconstructing her life as paradigmatic for the historical experience of the 20th century. In her biography, multiple forms of exile and homelessness are inextricably entwined: as Jewish émigré moving between Europe, Israel and the U.S., and as a female intellectual oscillating between art and academia.This project will contribute to various fields of scholarship like Biography Research, Exile Research and Jewish Studies. Up until now, their research tends to concentrate on single aspects only (e.g. 'female Jewish' or 'exiled'). There is also a tendency to treat a person's written legacy as testimonial of facts rather than as an oeuvre in its own right, representing an intellectual history. In contrast, my project draws exclusively on Taubes' literary estate: her manuscripts, diaries and letters not only document a remarkable intellectual network (e.g. S. Sontag, A. Camus, or E. Lévinas) but also express how her life and work was marked by political violence and permanent transit. Its systematic reconstruction will provide new insights into debates that have been hitherto held separately: like the topic of an 'escape to life' or of a 'literature of no fixed abode'.Previous research on Taubes' estate has yielded the enormous relevance of her work for contemporary issues, not only in regard of the role of religion in modern times but also in terms of questioning concepts of identity and biography. The latter has proved fruitful for this planned intellectual biography too, as I will avoid to sketch the writer's life as a coherent 'curriculum vitae' in favour of tracing how her individual experiences offoreignness and loss are reflected in her writing. Thus I shall use a method which focuses on interactions, interrelations and intertextuality: not only within Taubes' oeuvre but also between her writing and that ofcontemporary authors, personal encounters, individual fate and historical discourse. Thereby I will demonstrate how the complex experiences of the 20th century shape that century's literary and philosophical writing.The book's structure will follow the topographical grid of Taubes' many whereabouts: Budapest, New York, Jerusalem, Paris. How do these places correspond to her multifacetted work? To what extent is hermeandering between different geographies and languages, between her positioning as an artist and a philosopher constitutive for her life and her writing? The aim of each chapter is to sketch these places ashistorical and symbolic arenas for the writer's individual experiences - arenas that present a horizon for her intellectual output, whether she seeks affiliation despite her ambivalent attitudes to Jewish tradition, or whethershe academically and literarily challenges the problematic concepts of identity post Holocaust and World War II.

拟议的专着是作家兼哲学家苏珊·陶布斯（Susan Taubes，1928-1969）的知识分子传记，其特征远远超出了一本简单的回忆录，它重构了她的生活，将其作为 20 世纪历史经验的典范。多种形式的流亡和无家可归是密不可分的：作为犹太移民在欧洲、以色列和美国之间流动，作为女性知识分子在艺术和学术界之间摇摆不定。这个项目将为传记研究、流亡研究和犹太研究等各个领域的学术做出贡献。到目前为止，他们的研究倾向于仅集中于单一方面（例如“女性犹太人”或“流亡者”）。个人的书面遗产作为事实的见证，而不是作为一部作品本身，代表了一段思想史。相比之下，我的项目完全借鉴了陶布斯的文学遗产：她的手稿、日记和信件不仅记录了一个非凡的知识网络。 （例如 S. 桑塔格、A. 加缪或 E. 莱维纳斯），但也表达了她的生活和工作如何受到政治暴力和永久过境的影响，其系统性重建将为迄今为止单独举行的辩论提供新的见解： “逃避生活”或“居无定所的文学”的主题。之前对陶布斯遗产的研究表明，她的作品与当代问题具有巨大的相关性，不仅涉及宗教在现代的作用而且在质疑身份和传记概念方面，这也证明了这本计划中的知识分子传记的成果，因为我稍后会避免将作家的生活描绘成连贯的“简历”，以利于追踪她个人的异国经历。因此，我将使用一种注重互动、相互关系和互文性的方法：不仅在陶布斯的作品中，而且在她的作品和当代作家的作品、个人遭遇、个人命运之间。由此，我将展示 20 世纪的复杂经历如何塑造该世纪的文学和哲学写作。本书的结构将遵循陶布斯的许多行踪的地形网格：布达佩斯、纽约、耶路撒冷、巴黎。她的不同地域和语言、艺术家和哲学家的定位在多大程度上对应了她的生活和写作？是为作家的个人经历勾勒出这些非历史和象征性的舞台——这些舞台为她的智力产出提供了视野，无论她是否在对犹太传统的矛盾态度中寻求归属，或者她是否在学术和文学上挑战了大屠杀后身份问题的概念和第二次世界大战。