Description: "Poetry does not impose, it exposes itself," wrote Paul Celan. Werner Hamacher's investigations into crucial texts of philosophical and literary modernity show that Celan's apothegm is also valid for the structure of understanding and for language in general.
Brief description: Werner Hamacher was Professor of German and the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He was the author of Pleroma--Reading in Hegel and coeditor of the series Meridian.
Review Quotes: Hamacher offers his view of hermeneutical understanding as a way to interpret literary texts and to expose how literary texts disrupt the modern idea of correspondence... Hamacher's book is scholarly, insightful and interesting.--Richard Findler "The European Legacy"