Good will and the hermeneutics of friendship: Gadamer and Derrida

Philosophy & Social Criticism

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 512-522

  Caputo, John ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84998074327     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0191453702028005661     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter, ed. Diane P. Michelfelder and Richard E. Palmer (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1989), pp. 21–57; herefter D&D.
2. See the piece by Josef Simon in D&D, 162 ff., which takes ‘good will’ to be just the thing that separates Gadamer from Derrida.
3. See John D. Caputo, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997).
4. Hans Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, 2nd edn, revised, trans. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (New York: Crossroad, 1991), p. 388.
5. Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, ed. with a commentary by John D. Caputo (New York: Fordham University Press, 1997), p. 22.
6. For more on Derrida's distinction between faith and religion, see Derrida, ‘Faith and Knowledge’, in Religion, ed. Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo, trans. Samuel Weber (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), pp. 58–78.
7. For a commentary, see Caputo, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, §11.
8. Jacques Derrida, Politics of Friendship, trans. George Collins (London and New York: Verso, 1997); hereafter PF.
9. See Nutshell, pp. 13–15.