Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. on orientation
  • Skepticism and the struggle over finitude: Stanley Cavell
  • The anxiety of theory: Hölderlin's poetology as skeptical syndrome
  • Friedrich Hölderlin, "Blödigkeit," "das nächste Beste," "Andenken"
  • Calls for communion: Hölderlin's late poetry
  • Malevolent intimacies: Rilke and skeptical vulnerability
  • Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonette an Orpheus (excerpts)
  • Figuring finitude: Rilke's sonnets to orpheus
  • Epilogue. "Desperate conversation"; poetic finitude in Paul Celan and after.