 Embracing interpretation as sense-making, Susman practices an explicitly receptive, dialogical form of doing philosophy and writing; her writing, for instance, negotiates the relationship between the universal and particular through its performative dimensions as it proceeds. Making this receptivity a generative feature of her writing and thinking, Gestalten und Kreise exemplifies this particular mode of Susman’s writing, which might well be considered Susman’s particular form of écriture féminine.