Heinrich Detering »Die Revolte der Erde. Karl Marx und die Ökologie«

In the organizer's words:

Ecological sensitivity has characterized Karl Marx's work from the very beginning. It is not just the result of a late change, but impregnates his thinking from his early writings on "Capital" to his final years. Marx takes up Romanticism's thinking on nature and places it on its empirical feet from the speculative head. Ludwig Tieck and Goethe play no less a role in this than Charles Darwin or Adam Smith. Poetic texts and writing styles permeate social and scientific discourses.

In a combination of the history of ideas and intensive readings of texts, Heinrich Detering reveals the surprising topicality of Marx's writing in our time, a time in which the deformations of Marxism have run their course and the capitalism that survives them is conjuring up a global ecocide (Wallstein 2025).

Heinrich Detering, born in 1959, teaches modern German literature and comparative literature at the University of Göttingen. He received the Julius Campe Prize in 2003 and the H. C. Andersen Prize in 2012. In 2014 he was Aston Poet in Residence in Birmingham, in 2012 Liliencron Lecturer in Poetry in Kiel, in 2008 Guest of Honor at Villa Massimo, in 2004 Poetry Lecturer in Mainz, in 2003 Paul Celan Fellow in St. Louis.

Admission: 10,- / 7,- EUR. Advance ticket sales from 26.8. at the Box Office in the Haus des Buches (further dates: 27.8., 28.8., 2.9., 3.9., 4.9., 10.9., each 6-7.30 p.m. and 9.9. 5-6 p.m.)

Event of the Literaturhaus Leipzig e.V.