Allegorie : DFG Symposion 2014 Orte der Überkreuzungen Ortlosigkeit der Kreuzungen Die Allegorie im Feld ihrer Konkurrenzbegriffe Politik der Allegorie Entgrenzungen des Allegorischen: Kunst und Lebenswelt The symposium reviews and extends perspectives on allegory drawn from the work of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man. Modern and post modern self reflective practices that employ the fragment citation collage and an ironic presentation of meta fictionality have stimulated a return to allegory as an analytic category. Allegory opens the way to a new understanding of symbolic practices previously conceptualized as mimetic.