Argues for a new kind of criticism, one that mediates between literal and allegorical modes of interpretation.

Argues that deconstruction is not a critical methodology or theory but that which makes any act of good reading possible.

Offers a reconsideration of modernism in both philosophy and literature.

Examines the key role played by Nietzsche in the undoing of the Hegelian system of totality.

Discusses the ethical aspects of literature.

The major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions.

This book presents contemporary analyses of interpretation by some of the most prominent figures in contemporary philosophy and literary criticism. These essays question and transform traditional statements ...