Gadamer on Celan
Subtitle: "Who am I and who are you?" and other essays
By: Hans-Georg Gadamer ; translated and edited by Richard Heinemann and Bruce Krajewski ; with an introduction by Gerald L. Bruns.
Contributors: Heinemann, Richard, 1962-; Krajewski, Bruce, 1959-
Series: SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Celan, Paul -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: Gadamer on Celan makes all of Hans-Georg Cadamer's published writings on Paul Celan's poetry available in English for the first time. Gadamer's commentaries on Celan's work are explicitly meant for a general audience, and they are further testimony to Celan's growing importance in world literature since the Second World War. Celan's poetry has attracted the attention of many well-known figures, including Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Edmond Jabes, Otto Poggeler, and George Steiner.

As Steiner has said, "It will take a long time for our sensibilities to apprehend poetry of these dimensions and this radicality." Gadamer's commentaries will help readers to listen to Celan's poetry, and to become acquainted with his only book-length commentary on a poet, using the best example of Gadamer's thinking on the relationship of philosophy and poetry.

This book also contains a translation of Who Am I and Who Are You?, the centerpeice of Gadamer's most important philosophical project since the publication of Truth and Method (1960).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.