Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics


Foreword by Hans-Georg Gadamer


I On the Prehistory of Hermeneutics

1. Linguistic Delimitations
2. The Semantics of hermeneuein
3. Allegorical Interpretation of Myth
4. Philo: Tbe Universality of Allegory
5. Origen The Universality of Typology
6. Augustine: The Universality of the Inner Logos
7. Luther.- Sola Scriptura?
8. Flacius: The Universality of the Grammatical


II Hermeneutics between Grammar and Critique

1. Dannhauer: True Interpretation and Interpretive Truth
2. Chladenius: The Universality of the Pedagogical
3. Meier.- The Universality of Signs
4. Pietism: The Universality of the Affective


III Romantic Hermeneutics and Schleiermacher

1. The Post-Kantian Transition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism: Ast and Schlegel
2. Schleiermacher's Universalization of Misunderstanding
3. Limiting Hermeneutics to Psychology?
4. The Dialectical Ground of Hermeneutics


IV The Problems of Historicism

1. Böckh and the Dawn of Historical Awareness
2. Droysen's Universal Historiology: Understanding as Research in the Moral World
3. Dilthey: On the Way to Hermeneutics


V Heidegger: Hermeneutics as the Interpretation of Existence

1. The "Fore" of Fore- Understanding
2. Its Transparency in Interpretation
3. The Idea of a Philosophical Hermeneutics of Facticity
4. The Derivative Status of Statements?
5. Hermeneutics after the Turn


VI Gadamer and the Universe of Hermeneutics

1. Back to the Human Sciences
2. The Overcoming of Historicist Hermeneutics
3. Effective History as Principle
4. Understanding as Questioning and Therefore Application
5. Language as Dialogue
6. The Universality of the Hermeneutic Universe


VII Hermeneutics in Dialogue

1. Betti's Epistemological Return to the Inner Spirit
2. Habermas's Critique of Hermeneutics in the Name of Agreemen
3. The Deconstructive Challenge to Hermeneutics

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