Resumen de Poetik des Ungenauen
In this essay I am trying to intertwine personal memories with reflections on the essay as a genre, exploring the subjective consistency of objective realities. The question pursued is this: How can a mutually enriching relationship between academia and creative writing be envisaged? The essayistic tradition can be seen as an answer to an increasingly specialised professionalism in academia which is in danger of alienating itself from its social, political and sensory contexts. These contexts produce the very uncertainties which are at the core of the essay's concern
