Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Note on Abbreviations and Translations xiii
5. Introduction: The Course of the Argument 1
6. 1. Substance Poem Versus Function Poem: “Two Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin” 18
7. 2. Entering the Phenomenological School and Discovering the Color of Shame 44
8. 3. “Existence Toward Space”: Two “Rainbows” from Around 1916 79
9. 4. “The Problem of Historical Time”: Conversing with Scholem, Criticizing Heidegger in 1916 103
10. 5. Meaning in the Proper Sense of the Word: “On Language as Such and on Human Language” and Related Logico-Linguistic Studies 125
11. 6. Pure Knowledge and the Continuity of Experience: “On the Program of the Coming Philosophy” and Its Supplements 152
12. 7. The Political Counterpart to Pure Practical Reason: From Kant’s Doctrine of Right to Benjamin’s Category of Justice 187
13. Conclusion: The Shape of Time 227
14. Appendix: Translations 247
15. Notes 259
16. Bibliography 291
17. Index 307