Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction, Diane Michelfelder and Richard Palmer......Page 12
I. The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter: Paris, 1981......Page 30
1. Hans-Georg Gadamer - Text and Interpretation......Page 32
2. Jacques Derrlda - Three Questions to Hans-Georg Gadamer......Page 63
3. Hans-Georg Gadamer - Reply to Jacques Derrida......Page 66
4. Jacques Derrida - Interpreting Signatures (Nietzsche/Heidegger): Two Questions......Page 69
II. Gadamer Responds to the Encounter......Page 84
Prelude: Fred R. Dallmayr - Hermeneutics and Deconstruction: Gadamer and Derrida in Dialogue......Page 86
1. Hans-Georg Gadamer - Letter to Dallmayr......Page 104
2. Hans-Georg Gadamer - Destruktion and Deconstruction......Page 113
3. Hans-Georg Gadamer - Hermeneutics and Logocentrism......Page 125
III. Commentaries......Page 138
1. Philippe Forget - Argument(s)......Page 140
2. Manfred Frank - Limits of the Human Control of Language: Dialogue as the Place of Difference Between Neostructuralism and Hermeneutics......Page 161
3. Josef Simon - Good Will to Understand and the Will to Power: Remarks on an "Improbable Debate"......Page 173
4. James Risser - The Two Faces of Socrates: Gadamer/Derrida......Page 187
5. Charles Shepherdson - Imagine Understanding.........Page 197
6. G.B. Madison - Gadamer/Derrida: The Hermeneutics of Irony and Power......Page 203
7. Herman Rapaport - All Ears: Derrida's Response to Gadamer......Page 210
8. Donald G. Marshall - Dialogue and Écriture......Page 217
9. Richard Shusterman - The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter: A Pragmatist Perspective......Page 226
10. David Farrell Krell - "Ashes, ashes, we all fall...": Encountering Nietzsche......Page 233
11. Robert Bernasconi - Seeing Double: Destruktion and Deconstruction......Page 244
12. John Sallis - Interruptions......Page 262
13. John D. Caputo - Gadamer's Closet Essentialism: A Derridean Critique......Page 269
14. Neal Oxenhandler - The Man with Shoes of Wind: The Derrida-Gadamer Encounter......Page 276
15. Gabe Eisenstein - The Privilege of Sharing: Dead Ends and the Life of Language......Page 280
Abbreviations......Page 295
Contributors of Commentaries......Page 303
Introduction......Page 306
I, 1: Text and Interpretation......Page 308
II, Prelude: Hermeneutics and Deconstruction......Page 310
II, 1: Letter to Dallmayr......Page 312
II, 3: Hermeneutics and Logocentrlsm......Page 313
III, 1: Argument(s)......Page 314
III, 2: Limits of the Human Control of language......Page 317
III, 3: Good Will to Understand and the Will to Power......Page 318
III, 4: The Two Faces of Socrates: Gadamer/Derrlda......Page 319
III, 6: Gadamer/Derrlda: The Hermeneutics of Irony and Power......Page 320
III, 8: Dialogue and Écrlture......Page 321
III, 9: The Gadamer-Derrlda Encounter: A Pragmatist Perspective......Page 322
III, 10: "Ashes, ashes, we all fall..."......Page 323
III, 11: Seeing Double: Destruktlon and Deconstruction......Page 324
III, 13: Gadamer's Closet Essentialism: A Derrldean Critique......Page 325
III, 15: The Privilege of Sharing......Page 326
Index of Names......Page 328
Index of Works......Page 331
Index of Terms and Topics......Page 338
Back Cover......Page 364