Answering a question with a question (Aron and Henik 2009), as my Jewish colleagues teach me to do, can challenge the most devoted hermeneut or phenomenologist. When asked to comment on Giuseppe Civitarese’s paper, I faced the question whether and how to respond to this scholarly, dense, and intriguing text. Temptations abounded: from listing my many points of agreement to commenting on the sneaky charm of Civitarese’s allusion to Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, a favorite of mine too. Altogether the honor of being so invited and so challenged intrigued me; responding requires me to acknowledge the incompleteness of what it will be possible to take up, and of the questions that time, space, and my own limitations will allow me to frame. My questions, I hope, will not mask my admiration. Thank you to this author and to the editors of JAPA for obliging me to question my previous beliefs, for rattling my cage.

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正如我的犹太同事教我做的那样，用问题回答问题（Aron 和 Henik 2009）可以挑战最忠诚的解释者或现象学家。当被要求对 Giuseppe Civitarese 的论文发表评论时，我面临这样一个问题：是否以及如何回应这篇学术、密集和有趣的文本。诱惑比比皆是：从列出我的许多同意点到评论 Civitarese 暗指皮兰德洛的《寻找作者的六个角色》的鬼魅魅力，也是我的最爱。总而言之，受到如此邀请和如此挑战的荣誉引起了我的兴趣。回答要求我承认可能承担的内容的不完整性，以及时间、空间和我自己的限制将允许我构想的问题的不完整。我希望我的问题不会掩盖我的钦佩之情。感谢这位作者和JAPA的编辑们让我质疑我以前的信念，让我的笼子嘎嘎作响。