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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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Portions of this paper were subsequently incorporated into my Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction and the Hermeneutic Project (Bloomington: Indiana University Prss, 19871. Acknowledgment is gratefully made to Indiana University Press for permission to use this material.
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Caputo, J.D. (1988). From the Deconstruction of Hermeneutics to the Hermeneutics of Deconstruction. In: Silverman, H.J., Mickunas, A., Kisiel, T., Lingis, A. (eds) The Horizons of Continental Philosophy. Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3350-2_8
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