Title: Radical hermeneutics : repetition, deconstruction, and the hermeneutic project /
Authors: Caputo, John D.
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Hermeneutics.; Deconstruction.; Existentialism; Metaphysics; Philosophy
Abstract: For John D. Caputo, hermeneutics means radical thinking without transcendental justification: attending to the ruptures and irregularities in existence before the metaphysics of presence has a chance to smooth them over. --From publisher's description.
Contents: Repetition and the genesis of hermeneutics. Repetition and kinesis : Kierkegaard on the foundering of metaphysics ; Repetition and constitution : Husserl's proto-hermeneutics ; Retrieval and the circular being of Dasein : hermeneutics in Being and time -- Deconstruction and the radicalization of hermeneutics. Hermeneutics after Being and time ; Repetition and the emancipation of signs : Derrida on Husserl ; Hermes and the dispatches from being : Derrida on Heidegger ; Cold hermeneutics : Heidegger/Derrida -- The hermeneutic project. Toward a postmetaphysical rationality ; Toward an ethics of dissemination ; Openness to the mystery.