Wissenschaft auf dem ›post‹-Weg

25 March 2025 | Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, Eberhard-Lämmert-Saal, entrance Meierottostr. 8, 10719 Berlin

The prefix 'post-' is the most successful invention in the humanities and social sciences since 1945 and is used worldwide in capitalised words such as posthistoire, postmodernism and postcolonialism, as well as in countless other combinations. Obviously, it has become a trend to place oneself in the post-history of a pre-history. However, post-theorists have a fundamental problem: they leave something behind and yet continue to drag it along with them. They remain stuck in the ambivalence between attachment and departure.
Dieter Thomä's post. Nachruf auf eine Vorsilbe (Suhrkamp 2025) is an obituary for the postisms of our time and at the same time a plea for something different from them: presence of mind. We present the book in conversation with the author Dieter Thomä and the cultural scientist Philipp Felsch (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
The moderator will be Eva Geulen (ZfL). With the kind support of Suhrkamp Verlag.

Admission is free, registration is not necessary.