FrançaisConference : National literary fields and European space
Kursbuch. A national journal for a future transnational public
Author/s : Henning Marmulla
At the 2005 ESSE-Conference in Bielefeld I elaborated on the Revue International - a joint German, French and Italian initiative towards creating a common journal. The main aim of this project, as Maurice Blanchot, one of its originators, put it, was to highlight the need for international criticism of writers, as well as promoting international criticism of criticism itself. Shortly after the collapse of the Revue these ideas were institutionalized in the form of the Kursbuch, a German journal published since 1965 by Hans Magnus Enzensberger under the imprint of the Suhrkamp Publishing House. The Kursbuch soon became an important forum where various aspects of international cooperation among intellectuals were discussed and developed with the aim of creating a transnational public sphere. The Kursbuch gained relevance not only for the Extraparliamentarian Opposition in the Federal Republic of Germany, but also for the worldwide protest movements of the 1960s. An analysis of the Kursbuch may thus be perceived as an attempt to identify both possibilities and limits behind the process of surmounting the borders of a nation-state in favour of the expansion of the transnational.
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