Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Lyrical and Ethical Subjects: Straining Communicability
2. Wozu Hermeneutik?: On Poetry and the Political
3. Between the Lines: On Language, Translation, and Tradition
4. On Blank Pages, Storms, and Other Images of History: Speaking and Imagining History
5. Time Made Loud: On Language and Music
6. What We Cannot Say: On Language and Freedom
7. "Two mouthfuls of silence": On Language and Pain
8. On the Dark Side of the Moon: On Language and Deafness
9. Speaking of Nature: On Language and the Unbidden World
10. Words on Paper: On Language and Script
11. "Like a fire that consumes all before it": On Language and Image
12. Language in the Age of Modern Technicity: Speaking of Freedom and Community Once Again
Appendix: "Monologue" by Novalis
Notes
Index