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 SecretPart 1: On Not Knowing Who We Are: Toward a Felicitous Non-Essentialism1. On Not Knowing Who We Are: Madness, Hermeneutics, and the Night of Truth in Foucault2. How to Prepare for the Coming of the Other: Gadamer and Derrida3. Who is Derrida's Zarathustra? Of Fraternity, Friendship, and a Democracy to Come4. Parisian Hermeneutics and Yankee Hermeneutics: The Case of Derrida and RortyPart 2: Passions of Non-Knowledge: Gender, Science, Ethics5. Dreaming of the Innumerable: Derrida, Drucilla Cornell, and the Dance of Gender6. Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences: Heidegger, Science, and Essentialism7. The End of Ethics: A Non-Guide for the PerplexedPart 3: On the Road to Emmaus: In Defense of Devilish Hermeneutics8. Holy Hermeneutics versus Devilish Hermeneutics: Textuality and the Word of God9. Undecidability and the Empty Tomb: Toward a Hermeneutics of Belief10. The Prayers and Tears of Devilish Hermeneutics: Derrida and Meister EckhartConclusion without ConclusionNotesIndex