 Gadamer takes up the challenge posed by Derrida’s deconstruction not primarily as an objection to his hermeneutics but, instead, as an impetus to dedicate renewed attention to the role played by difference in interpretive experience. After all, even though philosophical hermeneutics does not involve the technical notion of différance, Gadamer’s hermeneutics makes space for difference in important regards. First, Gadamer certainly recognizes that every determinate claim of truth remains open to further interpretation. And, second, he recognizes that the hermeneutical experience of a determine claim of truth is itself a legacy of difference, since interpretive experience unfolds in the free play of conversation. Gadamer’s response to the challenge posed by deconstruction unfolds in attempts to expand and deepen these and related considerations of the role played by difference in interpretive experience. Gadamer develops this response in a number of essays, and is led to develop hermeneutical considerations of a number of themes brought into focus by his encounter with Derrida, such as the significance of what he calls the eminent text (see for example Gadamer, “Hermeneutics Tracking the Trace,” and “Text and Interpretation”). Matters of central concern for the philosophical controversy between hermeneutics and deconstruction have also been further developed by several philosophers associated with hermeneutics, such as John Caputo (1987), James Risser (1997), Donatella di Cesare (2003) and others.