More radical hermeneutics : on not knowing who we are
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More radical hermeneutics : on not knowing who we are
（Studies in Continental thought）
Indiana University Press, c2000
- hardcover : alk. paper
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In these spirited essays, John D. Caputo continues the project he launched with Radical Hermeneutics of making hermeneutics and deconstruction work together. In this latest work, 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. We have not been chosen as earthly instruments and there is no supreme Secret to which some have been given privileged access we make our way through the world searching for meaning and structure in hope of finding meaning in our 'factical' lives.But this is not all bad news. According to Caputo, the necessity of interpretation is the absolute and unconditional secret that radicalises hermeneutics, opens interpretations and perspectives, and prevents the dominance of any one point of view.
Focusing on how various contemporary philosophers - Foucault, Derrida, Rorty, Cornell, Marion, Gadamer, and Heidegger - 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 equally tears down and resuscitates religion and philosophy.
Table of Contents
Preliminary Table of Contents: Introduction: Hermeneutics and the Secret Part 1: On Not Knowing Who We Are: Toward a Felicitous Non-Essentialism 1. On Not Knowing Who We Are: Madness, Hermeneutics, and the Night of Truth in Foucault 2. How to Prepare for the Coming of the Other: Gadamer and Derrida 3. Who is Derrida's Zarathustra? Of Fraternity, Friendship, and a Democracy to Come 4. Parisian Hermeneutics and Yankee Hermeneutics: The Case of Derrida and Rorty Part 2: Passions of Non-Knowledge: Gender, Science, Ethics 5. Dreaming of the Innumerable: Derrida, Drucilla Cornell, and the Dance of Gender 6. Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences: Heidegger, Science, and Essentialism 7. The End of Ethics: A Non-Guide for the Perplexed Part 3: On the Road to Emmaus: In Defence of Devilish Hermeneutics 8. Holy Hermeneutics versus Devilish Hermeneutics: Textuality and the Word of God 9. Undecidability and the Empty Tomb: Toward a Hermeneutics of Belief 10. The Prayers and Tears of Devilish Hermeneutics: Derrida and Meister Eckhart Conclusion without Conclusion Notes Index
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