Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Hermeneutics and History -- Critique of romantic hermeneutics -- Schleiermacher's hermeneutics -- The hermeneutic account of history -- Hermeneutics and the Geisteswissenschaften -- The phenomenological turn -- 2 Hermeneutics and Authorial Intention -- Hirsch's intentionalism -- The structure of game-playing -- Mimesis -- Understanding as participation -- 3 Hermeneutics and The Problem of Subjectivism -- The rehabilitation of prejudice and tradition -- The anticipation of completeness -- Understanding and application -- The dialogic structure of understanding -- 4 Hermeneutics and The Critique of Ideology -- Habermas's review of Truth and Method -- Apel's critique of hermeneutics -- Habermas's second response to Gadamer -- Unconstrained communication -- Gadamer's conservatism -- 5 Hermeneutics and The "New Pragmatism" -- Rorty's new unity of science -- Rorty's critique of epistemology -- Rorty's irrationalism -- Bildung and practical reason -- 6 Conclusion -- The dialogic character of understanding -- Hermeneutic experience -- Bildung -- Notes -- Index.

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