Examines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German tradition.

Charles Bambach is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of several books, including Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice: Hölderlin-Heidegger-Celan, also published by SUNY Press. Theodore George is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel's Phenomenology and the translator of Günter Figal's Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy, both also published by SUNY Press.