Description: Examines poetic language in the work of Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot.
Brief description: William S. Allen is an independent scholar who received his PhD from the University of Warwick, England.
Review Quotes:
"This is a very serious work of thought that makes a valuable contribution to current discussions about language in the writings of Heidegger and Hölderlin. There are passages that are memorable not only for their insightfulness, but also because in an extremely condensed formulation, a genuinely original intuition is articulated with clarity and precision. It is a virtuoso performance." -- David Michael Kleinberg-Levin, author of Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Hölderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger