Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. To Give a Voice: Six Literary Experiments
1. Letters for the Soul
2. Experiment I. Socrates, the Interpreter
3. Experiment II. Alice, the Secretarious
4. Experiment III. Helena, the Poetess
5. Experiment IV. Johannes, the Poet
6. Experiment V. Bartleby, the Scrivener
7. Experiment VI. Er, the Messenger
Part II. A Distinctive Sense of Testimony
8. Elements of Testimony
9. An Exceptional Attestation
10. A Typology of the Witness
Part III. On the Threshold of Being and Language
11. An Ontology of Testimony
12. The Truth and Untruth of Testimony
13. Subject and Commitment
14. In Lieu of a Conclusion: Celan's Poetics of Testimony
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Gert-Jan van der Heiden is Full Professor of Metaphysics at Radboud University in the Netherlands. His books include Ontology after Ontotheology: Plurality, Event, and Contingency in Contemporary Philosophy and The Truth (and Untruth) of Language: Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Derrida on Disclosure and Displacement.