Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-191) and index
Cover; Speaking Hermeneutically; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Preface: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Involutions; Part 1 Dissolving Binaries; 1 "We can not consecrate": Between Word and Flesh; 2 The Space of Deliberation and the Time of Decision: Discursive Reciprocities of Self and World; 3 Transitive Agency: Between Person and Text; Part 2 The Circle of Reflection; 4 The History and Structure of the Circle; 5 Thinking Out Loud: The Involutions of Newman's Mind
6 Instigating the Event of Understanding: John Jay Chapman in Public and Private7 In the Garden of the Tuileries: The Circularity of Narrative Understanding; 8 The Hermeneutic Text: "An infinite web of motivations"; Part 3 The Matrix of Broken Parts; 9 Three Distances; 10 A House Divided: Contingent Judgment and Rhetorical Competence; 11 John Brown's Body: Pathologies of the Social Imaginary; Afterword: Theory, Practice, and Comportment; Notes; Bibliography; Index
