Between Heidegger and Novalis

“This book is more than a book—it is a work of thinking attentive to the relational force of existence, to the in-between acting rather as a verb than as substantive. Peter Hanly’s study opens paths not only to read anew Novalis, Heidegger, and the relation between both but to think our present, so much in the need of poetical and philosophical precision in times of ambiguity and bare reasonings.” —Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, author of Time in Exile: In Conversation with Heidegger, Blanchot, and Lispector

“Peter Hanly’s study of the relation between Heidegger and German Romanticism, especially Novalis, is unique in the range of themes it explores and in the profound reflections Hanly brings to bear on the sense and importance of this relationship. He weaves together in masterly fashion such themes as fecundity, metaphor, harmony, and pain; he shows also how Heidegger and Novalis take up and transform the thought of such philosophers as Fichte and Schelling. Hanly’s book displays exemplary scholarship, while also embodying profoundly original philosophical thought.” —John Sallis, author of Senses of Landscape