Understanding Hermeneutics

Provides an introduction to the major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy and the history of ideas since the beginning of the Enlightenment. This work presents an introduction to modern hermeneutics through an examination of the ideas of its key philosophical proponents.

Abbreviations Introduction: what is hermeneutics? 1. Schleiermacher's universal hermeneutics 2. Dilthey's hermeneutic understanding 3. Heidegger's hermeneutic ontology 4. Hermeneutics in the later Heidegger 5. Gadamer's theory of hermeneutic experience 6. Gadamer's ontological turn toward language 7. Hermeneutic controversies Questions for discussion and revision Further reading Index