Gerald Bruns

Gerald Bruns
Born	April 10, 1938
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental
Institutions	University of Notre Dame

Gerald Bruns (born April 10, 1938) is an American literary scholar and philosopher and William P. & Hazel B. White Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame.

Books

• Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language, Yale University Press, 1974
• Inventions: Writing, Textuality, and Understanding in Literary History, Yale, 1982
• Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern, Yale, 1992
• Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory, Northwestern University Press, 1999
• What Are Poets For? An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, University of Iowa Press, 2012
• On Ceasing to be Human, Stanford University Press, 2010
• On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy, Fordham University Press, 2006
• The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics, University of Georgia Press, 2005
• Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature, University of Alabama Press, 2018