Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE - The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature -- Plato and the Poets -- Heidegger and the Truth of Poetry -- Reading and Overreading -- CHAPTER TWO - Derrida, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction -- Derrida Reading/Reading Derrida -- Gadamer/Derrida, Hermeneutics/Deconstruction -- Derrida Reading Gadamer Reading -- CHAPTER THREE - Deleuze: Against Interpretation -- Against Interpretation -- For Interpretation: Proust -- Philosophy and Film -- The Return of the Same -- CHAPTER FOUR - Levinas and the Resistance to Reading -- The Phenomenology of Reading -- Sacred and Secular Texts -- On Proust -- Un amour de Swann -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER FIVE - Žižek's Idiotic Enjoyment -- Why the Letter Always or Never Arrives at Its Destination -- Interpretation as Enjoyment -- "As Every Reasonable and Cultured Person Knows ..." -- CHAPTER SIX - Cavell and the Claim of Reading -- Philosophy and Film -- The Knowledge of Film -- A Bunch of Assertions -- CHAPTER SEVEN - Conclusion: In Praise of Overreading -- The Avoidance of Error -- The Assault on Interpretation -- The Hermeneutics of Overreading -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.