More Radical Hermeneutics

In these spirited essays, John D. Caputo continues the project he launched with Radical Hermeneutics of making hermeneutics and deconstruction work together. Caputo claims that we are not born into this world hard-wired to know Being, Truth, or the Good, and we are not vessels of a Divine or other omnipotent supernatural force. Focusing on how various contemporary philosophers develop aspects of this fragmented view of the life world in areas such as madness, friendship, democracy, gender, science, the "end of ethics," religion, and mysticism, this animated study by one of America's leading continental philosophers shakes the foundations of religion and philosophy, even as it gives them new life.

John D. Caputo holds the David R. Cook Chair in Philosophy at Villanova University. He is author of The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida; Against Ethics; Demythologizing Heidegger; and Radical Hermeneutics (all published by Indiana University Press). He is editor of Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida and co-editor (with Michael J. Scanlon) of God, the Gift, and Postmodernism (published by Indiana University Press).

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: Hermeneutics and the Secret

1

(16)

Part 1: On Not Knowing Who We Are: Toward a Felicitous Non-Essentialism

On Not Knowing Who We Are

Madness, Hermeneutics, and the Night of Truth in Foucault

17

(24)

How to Prepare for the Coming of the Other

Gadamer and Derrida

41

(19)

Who Is Derrida's Zarathustra?

Of Fraternity, Friendship, and a Democracy to Come

60

(24)

Parisian Hermeneutics and Yankee Hermeneutics

The Case of Derrida and Rorty

84

(43)

Part 2: Passions of Non-Knowledge: Gender, Science, Ethics

Dreaming of the Innumerable

Jacques Derrida, Drucilla Cornell, and the Dance of Gender

127

(24)

Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences

Heidegger, Science, and Essentialism

151

(21)

The End of Ethics:

A Non-Guide for the Perplexed

172

(21)

Part 3: On the Road to Emmaus: In Defense of Devilish Hermeneutics

Holy Hermeneutics versus Devilish Hermeneutics

Textuality and the Word of God

193

(27)

Undecidability and the Empty Tomb

Toward a Hermeneutics of Belief

220

(29)

The Prayers and Tears of Devilish Hermeneutics

Derrida and Meister Eckhart

249

(16)

Conclusion without Conclusion

265

(2)

Notes

267

(24)

Index

291

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