Acknowledgments Introduction I. The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter: Paris, 1981 1. Text and Interpretation Hans-Georg Gadamer (translated by Dennis J. Schmidt and Richard Palmer) 2. Three Questions to Hans-Georg Gadamer Jacques Derrida (translated by Diane Michaelfelder and Richard Palmer) 3. Reply to Jacques Derrida Hans-Georg Gadamer (translated by Diane Michaelfelder and Richard Palmer) 4. Interpreting Signatures (Nietzsche/Heidegger): Two Questions Jacques Derrida (translated by Diane Michaelfelder and Richard Palmer) II. Gadamer Responds to the Encounter Prelude: Hermeneutics and Deconstruction: Gadamer and Derrida in Dialogue Fred Dallmayr 1. Letter to Dallmayr (1985) Hans-Georg Gadamer (translated by Richard Palmer and Diane Michaelfelder) 2. Destruktion and Deconstruction Hans-Georg Gadamer (translated by Geoff White and Richard Palmer) 3. Hermeneutics and Logocentrism (1987) Hans-Georg Gadamer (translated by Richard Palmer and Diane Michaelfelder) III. Commentaries 1. Argument(s) Phillipe Forget (translated by Diane Michaelfelder) 2. Limits of the Human Control of Language: Dialogue as the Place of Difference between Neostructuralism and Hermeneutics Manfred Frank (translated by Richard Palmer) 3. Good Will to Understand and the Will to Power: Remarks on an "Improbable Debate" Josef Simon ((translated by Richard Palmer) 4. The Two Faces of Socrates: Gadamer/Derrida James Risser 5. Imagine Understanding Charles Shepardson 6. Gadamer/Derrida: The Hermeneutics of Irony and Power G. B. Madison 7. All Ears: Derrida's Response to Gadamer Herman Rapaport 8. Dialogue and Écriture Donald C. Marshall 9. The Gadaner-Derrida Encounter: A Pragmatist Perspective Richard Shusterman 10. "Ashes, ashes, we all fall...": Encountering Nietzsche David Farrell Krell 11. Seeing Double: Destruktion and Deconstruction Robert Bernasconi 12. Interruptions John Sallis 13. Gadamer's Closet Essentialism: A Derridean Critique John D. Caputo 14. The Man with Shoes of Wind: The Derrida-Gadamer Encounter Neal Oxenhandler 15. The Privilege of Sharing: Dead Ends and the Life of Language Gabe Eisenstein List of Abbreviations Contributors of Commentaries Notes Indices

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