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

作为作家和哲学家苏珊·陶布斯（Susan Taubes, 1928-1969）的知识分子传记，这本拟议中的专著的特点远远超出了一本简单的回忆录，它将她的生活重构为20世纪历史经验的典范。在她的传记中，多种形式的流亡和无家可归不可避免地交织在一起：作为犹太人在欧洲、以色列和美国之间迁徙，作为一名女性知识分子在艺术和学术界之间摇摆。这个项目将有助于各个领域的学术研究，如传记研究，流亡研究和犹太研究。到目前为止，他们的研究往往只集中在单一方面。“犹太女性”或“被流放”)。还有一种倾向是，把一个人的书面遗产视为事实的证明，而不是作为一部代表思想史的作品。相比之下，我的项目只利用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（如S. Sontag、a . Camus或E. lsamuvinas），而且还表达了她的生活和工作是如何被政治暴力和永久迁移所标记的。它的系统重建将为迄今为止一直单独举行的辩论提供新的见解：比如“逃避生活”或“无固定住所的文学”的话题。之前对陶布斯遗产的研究发现了她的作品与当代问题的巨大关联，不仅涉及宗教在现代的作用，还涉及对身份和传记概念的质疑。后者被证明对这本计划中的知识分子传记也很有帮助，因为我将避免把作者的生活描绘成一份连贯的“简历”，而倾向于追踪她的个人经历是如何在她的写作中反映出来的。因此，我将使用一种关注互动、相互关系和互文性的方法：不仅在陶布斯的作品中，而且在她的作品与当代作家的作品、个人遭遇、个人命运和历史话语之间。因此，我将展示20世纪的复杂经历如何塑造了那个世纪的文学和哲学写作。这本书的结构将遵循陶布斯的许多地点的地形网格：布达佩斯，纽约，耶路撒冷，巴黎。这些地方是如何与她多方面的作品相对应的？在多大程度上，她在不同的地域和语言之间徘徊，在她作为艺术家和哲学家的定位之间徘徊，这构成了她的生活和写作？每一章的目的都是将这些地方描绘成作者个人经历的历史和象征舞台——这些舞台为她的智力产出提供了一个视野，无论她是在对犹太传统持矛盾态度的情况下寻求归属感，还是在学术和文学上挑战大屠杀和二战后身份的问题概念。

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.