Sebastian's SNF Ambizione project "Poetics of Abundance: Aesthetics - Economy - Literature" examines the role of an economic and aesthetic key category, which - as abundantia – goes back to ancient rhetoric. The project maps interdependencies between aesthetics, economics and literature – and the fine line between much and too much, between abundance and overabundance. How is the ambivalence of abundance illustrated in literary texts from the 18th century to the present day? To what extent does it challenge or threaten prevalent aesthetic and economic orders?

Sebastian Meixner will stay with echo until the end of August.