Books
• Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language, Yale University Press, 1974. 2nd ed. Dalkey Archive Press, 2001. • Inventions: Writing, Textuality, and Understanding in Literary History, Yale University Press, 1982. • ''Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings'', Yale University Press, 1989. • Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern, Yale University Press, 1992. • Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 2nd ed. 2005. • Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory, Northwestern University Press, 1999. • The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics, University of Georgia Press, 2005 • On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly, Fordham University Press, 2006 • On Ceasing to be Human, Stanford University Press, 2010 • What Are Poets For? An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, University of Iowa Press, 2012 • Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature, University of Alabama Press, 2018 ==References==