My thesis is that even as there is a deconstructive element in hermeneutics, so there also is a hermeneutic element in deconstruction. Hermeneutics cannot go about its work, which I see to be essentially one of retrieval, without an accompanying violence which enables it to recover what is hidden. But neither can deconstruction escape the hermeneutic circle; it cannot carry out its work without also cooperating in the work of recovery.