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 Private -- 7 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.