Bazon Brock

Noch ist Europa nicht verloren. Kritik der kabarettistischen Vernunft. Band 2
Kritik der kabarettistischen Vernunft. (Band 2)

„Kosmopolitisch wollen wir sein und können nicht einmal den Frieden in der Kleingartensiedlung bewahren.“

Bazon Brock (b. Stolp, Pomerania, 1936; lives and works in Wuppertal and Berlin) is professor emeritus of aesthetics and art education at the University of Wuppertal (BUW) and an artist and art theorist.

Pursuing lines of reasoning that seem contrarian at first, Brock time and again frames utterly novel perspective on pressing issues. Fifty years ago, he proclaimed that he would leave the most profound imprint on this world with his feet—now the ecological footprint is the metaphor that more than any other emblematizes the contemporary enlightened mindset. A thinker who considers it his duty to confront meanness wherever he encounters it, Brock has always been a critic of what is not real yet precisely in its unreality dominates our worldview. Following up on his Kritik der kabarettistischen Vernunft, this second volume opens with the hymn “Europe has not yet perished”: for we cannot lose what does not exist. Do we have to fail first to save Europe?

With essays on survival in the realm of modernist spirits, on how the word becomes flesh, the resurrection of the generation of 1968, the poetry of life and the truth of historic failure, and the possibilities for a European future.