CONTENTS	7
	SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE	9
	ABBREVIATIONS	13
	TEXTS BY HEIDEGGER	13
	OTHER TEXT	15
	CONTEXT	21
	WHY HEIDEGGER?	17
	1 THE LIMITS OF THE THEORETICAL	25
	METAPHYSICS	27
	THE PRE- THEORETICAL CONDITIONS OF THEORY	28
	THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE?	33
	TRUTH AS CORRECTNESS AND TRUTH AS UNCONCEALMENT	37
	SUMMARY	40
	2 DEEP HISTORY (GESCHICHTE)	43
	NIHILISM	45
	WHAT HAPPENS IN DEEP HISTORY	47
	THE EPOCH OF TECHNO- SCIENCE	50
	EXPLANATION?	51
	SUMMARY	54
	3 ‘ THE ORIGIN OF THE WORK OF ART’	57
	THE REJECTION OF MIMESIS	59
	DEFAMILIARIZING THE WORLD	61
	THE SINGULARITY OF THE WORK	63
	THE ‘ EARTH’: HEIDEGGER’S ‘ NON- FOUNDATIONAL THINKING’	67
	‘ EARTH’ AND LANGUAGE	70
	SUMMARY	75
	PRESERVATION	77
	4 THE DEATH OF ART?	77
	MODERN ART: IS ART FINISHED?	79
	SUMMARY	85
	5 LANGUAGE, TRADITION AND THE CRAFT OF THINKING	87
	LANGUAGE	88
	TRADITION AND THE TRACE	91
	TRANSLATINGS	95
	READING A PHILOSOPHICAL TERM	97
	A POSTCOLONIAL HEIDEGGER?	100
	HEIDEGGER’S EXPERIMENTS WITH LANGUAGE	102
	SUMMARY	107
	QUIZZICAL INTERLUDE	109
	6 HEIDEGGER AND THE POETIC	113
	FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN	114
	WHAT IS A HEIDEGGERIAN READING? BASIC FEATURES	116
	HISTORICISM	125
	HEIDEGGER READING HÖLDERLIN’S ‘ GERMANIA’	126
	SUMMARY	135
	7 NAZISM, POETRY AND THE POLITICAL	137
	HEIDEGGER’S SILENCE?	140
	ART AND POLITICS	142
	THE READERS’ DILEMMA	150
	AMERICAN HEIDEGGER: THE ROMANTIC ‘ POST- STRUCTURALIST’?	158
	HERMENEUTICS	161
	BLANCHOT, DERRIDA AND DECONSTRUCTION	163
	FURTHER READING	171
	WORKS BY HEIDEGGER	171
	WORKS ON HEIDEGGER	173
	LITERARY AND CRITICAL TOPICS	177
	WORKS CITED	183
	INDEX	193