Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface ix
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction. From Word to Concept 1
7. PART ONE. Gadamer’s Influence
8. Chapter 1. After Historicism, Is Metaphysics Still Possible? 15
9. Chapter 2. Being That Can Be Understood Is Language 21
10. Chapter 3. On the Coherence of Hermeneutics and Ethics 30
11. Chapter 4. Gadamer and Romanticism 55
12. Chapter 5. Literature, Law, and Morality 82
13. Chapter 6. A Critique of Gadamer’s Aesthetics 103
14. PART TWO. Gadamer and Dialogue
15. Chapter 7. On Dialogue 123
16. Chapter 8. Gadamer’s Philosophy of Dialogue and Its Relation to the Postmodernism of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Strauss 145
17. Chapter 9. Meaningless Hermeneutics? 158
18. PART THREE. Gadamer in Question
19. Chapter 10. Radio Nietzsche, or, How to Fall Short of Philosophy 169
20. Chapter 11. The Art of Allusion 212
21. Chapter 12. On the Politics of Gadamerian Hermeneutics 229
22. Chapter 13. The Protection of the Philosophical Form 244
23. Chapter 14. Salutations 256
24. Contributors 307
25. Index 311