Ian Tan is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His key areas of research are the intersections of literature, philosophy and film with special emphasis on literary theory, modernist poetry and contemporary fiction. He has published work on authors such as James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, Ian McEwan, John Banville and Graham Swift.

• 1 Introduction: Language as “Quasi”-Transcendental Presence—Phenomenology and Poetry.- 2 ‘Not ours although we understood’: The Language of Stevens and Heidegger.- 3 The Neighbouring of Poetry and Philosophy: Thinking from/with the Event of Ereignis.- 4 Considering Presence and Place in Stevens’ Harmonium.- 5 Ideology, Politics and Life in the Polis for Heidegger, Stevens and American Poetry in the 1930s.- 6 Stevens’ Supreme Fiction and the Location of Truth as/in Philosophy.- 7 To See Things as They Finally Are: The Question of Being in the Late Poetry.- 8.Conclusion: The Task of the Heideggerian Critic and the Adventure of Poetry’s Being.

Ian Tan is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His key areas of research are the intersections of literature, philosophy and film with special emphasis on literary theory, modernist poetry and contemporary fiction. He has published work on authors such as James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, Ian McEwan, John Banville and Graham Swift.

• 1 Introduction: Language as “Quasi”-Transcendental Presence—Phenomenology and Poetry.- 2 ‘Not ours although we understood’: The Language of Stevens and Heidegger.- 3 The Neighbouring of Poetry and Philosophy: Thinking from/with the Event of Ereignis.- 4 Considering Presence and Place in Stevens’ Harmonium.- 5 Ideology, Politics and Life in the Polis for Heidegger, Stevens and American Poetry in the 1930s.- 6 Stevens’ Supreme Fiction and the Location of Truth as/in Philosophy.- 7 To See Things as They Finally Are: The Question of Being in the Late Poetry.- 8.Conclusion: The Task of the Heideggerian Critic and the Adventure of Poetry’s Being.

Ian Tan is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His key areas of research are the intersections of literature, philosophy and film with special emphasis on literary theory, modernist poetry and contemporary fiction. He has published work on authors such as James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, Ian McEwan, John Banville and Graham Swift.

• 1 Introduction: Language as “Quasi”-Transcendental Presence—Phenomenology and Poetry.- 2 ‘Not ours although we understood’: The Language of Stevens and Heidegger.- 3 The Neighbouring of Poetry and Philosophy: Thinking from/with the Event of Ereignis.- 4 Considering Presence and Place in Stevens’ Harmonium.- 5 Ideology, Politics and Life in the Polis for Heidegger, Stevens and American Poetry in the 1930s.- 6 Stevens’ Supreme Fiction and the Location of Truth as/in Philosophy.- 7 To See Things as They Finally Are: The Question of Being in the Late Poetry.- 8.Conclusion: The Task of the Heideggerian Critic and the Adventure of Poetry’s Being.