Is anything ever not an interpretation? Does interpretation go all the way down? Is there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not how are we supposed to know what to think & do? These tantalizing questions are tackled by renowned American thinker John D Caputo in this wide-reaching exploration of what the traditional term 'hermeneutics' can mean in a postmodern twenty-first century world As a contemporary of Derrida's & longstanding champion of rethinking the disciplines of theology & philosophy for decades Caputo has been forming alliances across disciplines & drawing in readers with his compelling approach to what he calls radical hermeneutics In this new introduction drawing upon a range of thinkers from Heidegger to the Parisian 1968ers & beyond he raises a series of probing questions about the challenges of life in the postmodern & maybe soon to be 'post-human' world'