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Proposes to rethink the ontological and ethical dimensions of language by rereading Heidegger's work and by engaging Levinas' ethics and contemporary poetics.

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Author:   Krzysztof Ziarek
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780791420607

ISBN 10:   0791420604
Pages:   239
Publication Date:   25 October 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Inflecting Difference 1. Rethinking the Parameters of the Heideggerian Hermeneutics: Heidegger on Poetry and Thinking Dichten-Denken: Beyond a Philosophy of Poetry Heidegger's Language: From Difference to the Infold 2. Refiguring Otherness: A Heideggerian Bypass of Ethics? Aside from Metaphysics: Heidegger on Nearness Beyond Ontology and Ethics: The Two Side of Gelassenheit 3. Semantics of Proximity: Levinas on Non-Indifferenece The Abrahamic Departure from Totality The Non-Indifferent Face Semantics of Proximity The Trace 4. The Other Notation: Stevens and the Supreme Fiction of Poetry Poet on the Dump: Steven's Reckoning with the Romantic Legacy Notes toward Otherness: A Supreme Fiction? Perhaps Other: Stevensian Notes on Difference 5. Chiasmus of Otherness: Reading Celan and his Interpreters The Unwritten Text and the Name of the Other ""Two Kinds of Strangeness"": Celan on the Possibility of Signifying the Ethical in Poetry 6. Celan's Poetic Meridians Coda: Semiosis of Listening or an Other Meeting between Heidegger and Celan Notes Index

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"""The book is a valuable addition both to the discussion of ethics in continental philosophy and to the employment of continental philosophy for the reading of poetry."" - Robert Bernsaconi"

The book is a valuable addition both to the discussion of ethics in continental philosophy and to the employment of continental philosophy for the reading of poetry. - Robert Bernsaconi

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Krzysztof Ziarek is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.

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