In this book, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyzes conflicts between various interpretive schools, and provides a persuasive account and a critical appraisal of Gadamer's Truth and Method. This book is destined to become a first-hand working instrument for all those who wish to initiate themselves to the discipline.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
On the Prehistory of Hermeneutics	p. 16
Linguistic Delimitations	p. 16
The Semantics of hermeneuein	p. 20
Allegorical Interpretation of Myth	p. 23
Philo: The Universality of Allegory	p. 26
Origen: The Universality of Typology	p. 28
Augustine: The Universality of the Inner Logos	p. 32
Luther: Sola Scriptura?	p. 39
Flacius: The Universality of the Grammatical	p. 42
Hermeneutics between Grammar and Critique	p. 45
Dannhauer: True Interpretation and Interpretive Truth	p. 47
Chladenius: The Universality of the Pedagogical	p. 50
Meier: The Universality of Signs	p. 56
Pietism: The Universality of the Affective	p. 59
Romantic Hermeneutics and Schleiermacher	p. 63
The Post-Kantian Transition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism: Ast and Schlegel	p. 63
Schleiermacher's Universalization of Misunderstanding	p. 67
Limiting Hermeneutics to Psychology?	p. 72
The Dialectical Ground of Hermeneutics	p. 73
The Problems of Historicism	p. 76
Bockh and the Dawn of Historical Awareness	p. 76
Droysen's Universal Historiology: Understanding as Research in the Moral World	p. 79
Dilthey: On the Way to Hermeneutics	p. 84
Heidegger: Hermeneutics as the Interpretation of Existence	p. 91
The "Fore" of Fore-Understanding	p. 92
Its Transparency in Interpretation	p. 96
The Idea of a Philosophical Hermeneutics of Facticity	p. 98
The Derivative Status of Statements?	p. 100
Hermeneutics after the Turn	p. 102
Gadamer and the Universe of Hermeneutics	p. 106
Back to the Human Sciences	p. 106
The Overcoming of Historicist Hermeneutics	p. 110
Effective History as Principle	p. 113
Understanding as Questioning and Therefore Application	p. 115
Language as Dialogue	p. 117
The Universality of the Hermeneutic Universe	p. 120
Hermeneutics in Dialogue	p. 124
Betti's Epistemological Return to the Inner Spirit	p. 125
Habermas's Critique of Hermeneutics in the Name of Agreement	p. 129
The Deconstructive Challenge to Hermeneutics	p. 135
Afterword	p. 140
Notes	p. 145
Bibliography	p. 169
Index	p. 229
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