Books by Gerald L. Bruns

Poetry without frontiers, unmoored from expectations, and sometimes even written in imaginary languages; Bruns shows us why, for the sake of all poetry, we should embrace its anarchic, vitalizing ways.

In this meditation on the nature and purpose of hermeneutics, Gerald Bruns argues that hermeneutics is not just a contemporary theory. It is an extended family of questions about understanding and interpretation that have multiple and conflicting histories from before the beginning of writing.

He describes what is creative in Blanchot's readings of Heidegger's controversial works and examines Blanchot's conception of poetry as an inquiry into the limits of philosophy, rationality, and power.

Focuses upon the systematic interest that so many European philosophers take in modernism. In this study, the author answers that the culture of modernism is a kind of anarchist community, where the work of art is apt to be as much an event or experience - or, indeed, an alternative form of life - as a formal object.