PREMISES

Essays on Philosophy and Literature

from Kant to Celan

Werner Hamacher
Translated by Peter Fenves

Harvard University Press

Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
1996
 Contents

Premises i

Hermeneutic Ellipses: Writing the Hermeneutic Circle in

Schleiermacher 44

The Promise of Interpretation: Remarks on the Hermeneutic

Imperative in Kant and Nietzsche 81
"Disgregation of the Will": Nietzsche on the Individual and
Individuality 143
"Lectio": de Man's Imperative 181
Position Exposed: Friedrich Schlegel's Poetological
Transposition of Fichte's Absolute Proposition 222
The Quaking of Presentation: Kleist's "Earthquake in Chile" 261
The Gesture in the Name: O n Benjamin and Kafka 294
The Second of Inversion: Movements of a Figure through

Celan's Poetry 337

Sources 389

Index 391