Table Of Contents:
General Introduction: Thinking Between Philosophy and Poetry 1(10)

Robert Burch

Part One: Ethics of Writing

Introduction 11(4)

Gesture and Word: The Practice of Philosophy and the Practice of Poetry 15(12)

Carlo Sini

The Rise and Fall of Reality: Socrates, Virtual Reality, and the Birth of Philosophy from the ``Spirit of Writing'' 27(14)

Alessandro Carrera

Analogical Thinking as a Friend of Interpretive Truth: Reflections Based on Carlo Sini's Images of Truth 41(22)

Forrest Williams

Part Two: Truth, Texts, and the Narrative Self

Introduction 59(4)

When Truth Becomes Woman: Male Traces and Female Signs 63(10)

Eve Tavor Bannet

Orality and Writing: Plato's Phaedrus and the Pharmakon Revisited 73(18)

P. Christopher Smith

Ethics of the Narrative Self 91(14)

Richard Kearney

Part Three: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Spirit of History

Introduction 101(4)

Woburn on My Mind and in My (Mind's) Eye: Beckett's Poiesis 105(12)

Stephen Barker

The Naming of the Hymn: Heidegger and Holderlin 117(8)

Karen Feldman

On Transvaluing History: Rilke and Nietzsche 125(18)

Richard Detsch

Part Four: The ``Force of Rhythm'' in Life, Philosophy, and Poetry

Introduction 139(4)

Reflections on Speed 143(18)

David Halliburton

The Meaning of Rhythm 161(10)

Amittai Aviram

Mousike Techne: The Philosophical Practice of Music in Plato, Nietzsche, and Heidegger 171(10)

Babette E. Babich
Abbreviations 181(4)
Notes 185(22)
Bibliography 207(8)
Index 215(4)
Acknowledgments 219(2)
Contributors 221(2)
Editors 223