Guest editors' introduction

Nancy Tuana, Charles E. Scott

1-2

Letter of thanks

Dennis J. Schmidt

3-4

Lives of idioms

Charles E. Scott

5-18

From abode to dissemination

John Sallis

19-28

Greek tragedy and the ethopoietic event

Walter Brogan

29-38

In a world fraught and tender

on Dennis Schmidt's contribution to an original ethics

Theodore George

39-52

Dennis Schmidt and the origin of the ethical life

the law of the idiom

Peg Birmingham

53-66

The predicament of life

Dennis Schmidt and the ethical subject

Andrew Benjamin

67-78

Ethical hermeneutics, or how the ubiquity of the finite casts the human in the shadow of the dark side of the moon

James Risser

79-89

On the style of philosophizing

Dennis Schmidt's hermeneutics of writing

Maria del Rosario Acosta, Maria I. Lopez, Maria J. Lopez

91-103

Hermeneutics without meaning

the comic and the political

Jeffrey Nealon

105-118

Death and sacrifice in Hegel's philosophy of nature

Shannon Mussett

119-134

Earth art

space, place, word, and time

David Wood

135-157

Where ethics begins ...

Dennis J. Schmidt

159-175