From the deconstruction of hermeneutics to the hermeneutics of deconstruction
pp. 190-202
in: Hugh J. Silverman, Algis Mickunas, Alphonso Lingis, Theodore Kisiel (eds), The horizons of continental philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 1988Abstract
My thesis is that even as there is a deconstructive element in hermeneutics, so there also is a hermeneutic element in deconstruction. Hermeneutics cannot go about its work, which I see to be essentially one of retrieval, without an accompanying violence which enables it to recover what is hidden. But neither can deconstruction escape the hermeneutic circle; it cannot carry out its work without also cooperating in the work of recovery.