“There are no encounters in theory, it is said––for theory, whatever its claims, cannot open to the event. As Jeremy Fernando demonstrates masterfully in Reading Blindly, theory must become reading to give the encounter to thought. Here, in a rich and always-challenging meditation, reading is understood from an ethical turn that prompts us to rethink ethics itself.” — Christopher Fynsk, Director of the Centre for Modern Thought, The University of Aberdeen; and author of Infant Figures, Language and Relation, and The Claim of Language.