CONVERGENCE AMIDST DIFFERENCE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ESSAY I. Traces of Meaning and Reference: From Epistemology to Linguistics to Hermeneutics -- ESSAY II. The Subject in Question and the Question about the Questioner -- ESSAY III. The Recovery of the Phenomenological Subject: In Conversation with Ricoeur, Derrida, and Levinas -- ESSAY IV. Postmodernism as a Problem for Metaphysics -- ESSAY V. The Task of Philosophy for the New Millennium -- NOTES -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.