are apparently embedded (“deconstruct” the text), and refit them into the framework (“locatedness”) of the interpreter, thereby generating fresh insight, not least that which relativizes and criticizes the text itself. The new hermeneutic reaches back several decades; radical hermeneutics and deconstruction are a little younger; this analysis of the move from modernity to postmodernity is only a couple of decades old. Yet together they have exerted vast influence in every field of Western intellectual