More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing who We are

More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing who We are
ISBN-10
0253213878
ISBN-13
9780253213877
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Author
John D. Caputo

Description

In these spirited essays, John D. Caputo continues the project he launched with Radical Hermeneutics of making hermeneutics and deconstruction work together. 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. Focusing on how various contemporary philosophers 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 shakes the foundations of religion and philosophy, even as it gives them new life.

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