Andrzej Wiercinski. Inspired Metaphysics? Gustav Siewerths Hermeneutic Reading of the Onto-Theological Tradition. Toronto: The Hermeneutic Press, 2003.

The writings of the German philosopher and educator Gustav Siewerth continue to remain virtually unknown outside of very restricted philosophical and theological circles in North America and Europe.That such is the case is indeed unfortunate, given the importance of Siewerth's efforts to clarify the meaning of difference on the basis of his hermeneutic reading of Thomas Aquinas undertaken in light of the philosophy of Hegel and Heidegger.Few tasks, after all, remain more central for contemporary continental philosophy than the effort to think difference; and no issue is better suited to bridge the abyss that seems to obtain between most contemporary Thomist and most contemporary post-Heideggerian philosophers and academics.Given the importance of Siewerth's thought for a hermeneutically motivated exploration of the meaning both of Being and of difference, the efforts of Andrzej Wierciñski on Siewerth's behalf are both timely and eminently worthy of note.Inspired Metaphysics is actually the second of a series of volumes currently being published by the International Institute for Hermeneutics, of which Wierciñski is the founder.Inspired Metaphysics is both timely and worthy of note not least of all because it furthermore prepares the reader directly to enter into the mature Siewerth's inquiry into the meaning of Being and difference by way of the recently published German-English edition of Siewerth's treatise of 1958, Das Sein als Gleichnis Gottes.This latter text has in fact appeared for the very first time in English translation also thanks to the efforts of Andrzej Wierciñski, who is the editor and translator of the bi-lingual edition of Das Sein als Gleichnis Gottes recently published by Verlag Gustav Siewerth Gesellschaft this past October of 2005 under the title Philosophizing with Gustav Siewerth: A New German Edition with Facing Translation of Das Sein als Gleichnis Gottes/Being as Likeness of God.The original German text is comparable to Aquinas's De ente et essentia and De potentia Dei with respect both to its brevity and to its density.Wierciñski's careful translation, along with the extensive critical apparatus he provides, renders Siewerth's rich but difficult text much easier to access.Even so, the reader who would embark upon Das Sein in its new German-English edition would do well first to prepare herself for the journey by means of a careful reading of Inspired Metaphysics.The bilingual edition of Das Sein and Inspired Metaphysics, although published under different imprints, merits being taken as a "natural whole" in which each text most fully discloses itself only through the mediation of its other.Why should thinkers in the continental tradition pay attention to Wierciñski's hermeneutic reading of Thomas Aquinas and Gustav Siewerth?Wierciñski's voice needs to be heard because much of the valorization of difference carried out within the context of contemporary continental philosophy

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