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).

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 Defense 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