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(1988) The horizons of continental philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.
From the deconstruction of hermeneutics to the hermeneutics of deconstruction
John D Caputo
pp. 190-202
My thesis is that even as there is a deconstructive element in hermeneutics, so there also is a hermeneutic element in deconstruction. Hermeneutics cannot go about its work, which I see to be essentially one of retrieval, without an accompanying violence which enables it to recover what is hidden. But neither can deconstruction escape the hermeneutic circle; it cannot carry out its work without also cooperating in the work of recovery.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3350-2_8
Full citation:
Caputo, J.D. (1988)., From the deconstruction of hermeneutics to the hermeneutics of deconstruction, in H. J. Silverman, A. Mickunas, A. Lingis & T. Kisiel (eds.), The horizons of continental philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 190-202.
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