Poetic Thinking. Now

About Marko Pajevi

Marko Pajevi took up an EU funded Professorship of German Studies at the University of Tartu in January 2018 after holding positions at the Sorbonne Paris IV and Queens University Belfast as well as Royal Holloway and Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely in German English and French on poetics with (co-)edited volumes on Paul Celan multilingualism and the political German and European poetics after the Holocaust and on the connection between poetry and musicality. He wrote monographs on Paul Celan and Franz Kafka. At the heart of his work stands the development of a poetological anthropology as presented most prominently in a German-language monograph and in this book. His interest in thinking language resulted in special issues on Wilhelm von Humboldt and Henri Meschonnic and an English language Meschonnic Reader. Recently he has worked on health and biopolitics with an edited volume and a forthcoming special issue and on the notion of the abyss as a concept for cultural theory an edited volume is forthcoming. This is part of his overarching research project: see the website APT (Academia for Poetic Thinking): apt.ut.ee.