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"This is a remarkable book: wide-ranging, resonant, andwell-written; it is also reflective and personable, warm and engaging." --Philosophy and Literature
"With this book Caputo takes hisplace firmly as the foremost American, continental post-modernist... " --International Philosophical Quarterly
"One cannot but beimpressed by the scope of Radical Hermeneutics." -- Man andWorld
"Caputo's study is stunning in its scope andscholarship." -- Robert E. Lauder, St. John's University, TheThomist
For John D. Caputo, hermeneutics means radical thinkingwithout transcendental justification: attending to the ruptures and irregularitiesin existence before the metaphysics of presence has a chance to smooth them over.Radical Hermeneutics forges a closer collaboration between hermeneutics anddeconstruction than has previously been attempted.
List of contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction: Restoring Life to Its Original Difficulty
Part One: Repetition and the Genesis of Hermeneutics
CHAPTER I. Repetition and Kinesis: Kierkegaard on the Foundering of Metaphysics
CHAPTER II. Repetition and Constitution: Husserl's Proto-Hermeneutics
CHAPTER III. Retrieval and the Circular Being of Dasein: Hermeneutics in Being and Time
Part Two: Deconstruction and the Radicalization of Hermeneutics
CHAPTER IV. Hermeneutics after Being and Time
CHAPTER V. Repetition and the Emancipation of Signs: Derrida on Husserl
CHAPTER VI. Hermes and the Dispatches from Being: Derrida on Heidegger
CHAPTER VII. Cold Hermeneutics: Heidegger/Derrida
Part Three: The Hermenuatic Project
CHAPTER VIII. Toward a Postmetaphysical Rationality
CHAPTER IX. Toward an Ethics of Dissemination
CHAPTER X. Openess to the Mystery
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
About the author
John D. Caputo
Summary
Aims to forge a collaboration between hermeneutics and deconstruction.
