thinking? -- The formal elements of speculative thought -- The speculative motion of hermeneutic experience -- The defence of speculative understanding -- The speculative and the humanistic -- Speculative insight and the "unfounding" of experience -- Language and the dialectic of speculative experience -- Nietzsche, philosophical hermeneutics, language, and the market place -- Entr'acte -- Understanding's disquiet -- The wantonness of understanding -- Four responses to deconstructive criticism -- Philosophical hermeneutics and the question of alterity -- Nihilism and the life of understanding -- Dialogue and dialectic -- Language, ideas and sachen -- Keeping the word in play -- Choice words -- The poise of the in-between -- The giving word -- Language and withouteness -- Language negation and affirmation : a resume -- The open and the empty -- Understanding and the disquieting of the self -- Di-alogue and di-stance. |