Professor at the University of Frankfurt and founder and Director of its Institute of General and Comparative Literary Studies, Werner Hamacher (1948-2017) was also the Emmanuel Levinas Chair and Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the European Graduate School. Hamacher co-founded and edited the Stanford book series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Peter Fenves is the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature at Northwestern University. Julia Ng is Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she co-directs the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. Anthony Curtis Adler is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Yonsei University's Underwood International College.

"These texts constitute a unique and highly significant contribution to Hölderlin studies, as well as a fitting tribute to Werner Hamacher, a singularly gifted and original thinker. His writings here stand alone in their scholarly mastery and philological brilliance."—Susan Bernstein, Brown University "This is an extraordinary book, in which the brilliance of literary interpretation and the force of critical argument can hardly be told apart. Each of its two 'studies' shines a bright light on Hölderlin's poetry and poetics, and each bears witness to the exceptional subtlety, precision, and originality for which Werner Hamacher's own work is known."—Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University "Hamacher examines works of philosophy and literature with a rigorous philological attention attuned to subtleties of language and poetics....The essays in the present volume...are models of rigorous literary-philosophical criticism and a deserving memorial to Hamacher's work in this area. Recommended."—R. Bledsoe, CHOICE

• Introduction: Versing, Ending: Hölderlin in 19711. Version of Meaning: A Study of Hölderlin's Late Lyric2. Parousia, Stone-Walls: Mediacy and Temporality, Late HölderlinAfterword: Toward a "Non-Metaphysical 'Concept' of Revolution"