Mortal Thought

James Luchte is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of the Humanities. His scholarly publications, all published by Bloomsbury, include Mortal Thought: Hölderlin and Philosophy (forthcoming, 2016), Early Greek Thought: Before the Dawn (2011), The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche (translator, 2010), Pythagoras and the Doctrine of Transmigration: Wandering Souls (2009), Heidegger's Early Philosophy: The Phenomenology of Ecstatic Temporality (2008), Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Before Sunrise (Editor, 2008) and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (2007).

Opening – Mortal Thought

Part One: Hölderlin and the Poetics of Thought
Chapter One: The Unity of Philosophy in Kant
Chapter Two: Transcendental Poetics and the Doctrine of Reflection
Chapter Three: Poetics Beyond Reflection: Being and Judgment
Chapter Four: Hölderlin and the Tragic Sublime
Chapter Five: Mortal Thought: The Poetics of Being and Existence

Part Two: Hölderlin’s Child: Nietzsche
Chapter Six: Hyperion and The Birth of Tragedy
Chapter Seven: Tragic Poetry and the Thread of Ariadne
Chapter Eight: Empedocles and the Death of Zarathustra

Part Three: Hölderlin and Contemporary Philosophy
Chapter Nine: Hölderlin and the Frankfurt School
Chapter Ten: Heidegger and the Question of Being
Chapter Eleven: Heidegger’s Poetic Turn
Chapter Twelve: Hölderlin and the Poetics of Deconstruction
Chapter Thirteen: All in All: The Poetics of Intimacy

Epilogue: The Revolution of the Mortal

Bibliography
Index