Table of Content
Preface Acknowledgments 1. Autobiographical Reflections Part 1. Defining the Idea of a Philosophical Hermeneutics 2. Classical and Philosophical Hermeneutics 3. The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem 4. Language and Understanding 5. From Word to Concept: The Task of Hermeneutics as Philosophy Part 2. Hermeneutics, Art, and Poetry 6. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics 7. On the Truth of the Word 8. Text and Interpretation 9. The Artwork in Word and Image: "So True, So Full of Being!" Part 3. Hermeneutics and Practical Philosophy 10. Hermeneutics as Practical Philosophy 11. Hermeneutics as a Theoretical and Practical Task 12. Greek Philosophy and Modern Thinking 13. On the Possibility of a Philosophical Ethics Part 4. Gadamer on Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, and Derrida 14. Plato as Portraitist 15. The Heritage of Hegel 16. Heidegger and the Language of Metaphysics 17. Hermeneutics and the Ontological Difference 18. Hermeneutics Tracking the Trace [On Derrida] Part 5. Concluding Dialogue with Jean Grondin 19. A Look Back over the Collected Works and Their Effective History List of Abbreviations Notes Index of Persons Index of Subject Matter
