Table of Contents
1. HERMENEUTICS AND HISTORY: Critique of Romantic Hermeneutics; The Phenomenological Turn.
2. HERMENEUTICS AND AUTHORIAL INTENTIONL: Hirsch's Intentionalism; The Structure of Game-Playing; Mimesis; Understanding as Participation.
3. HERMENEU TICS AND THE PROBLEM OF SUBJECTIVISM: The Rehabilitation of Prejudice and Tradition; The Anticipation of Completeness; Understanding and Application; The Dialogic Structure of Understanding.
4. HERMENEUT ICS 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. HERMENEUT ICS AND THE ‘NEW PRAGMATISM': Rorty's New Unity of Science; Rorty's Critique of Epistemology; Rorty's Irrationalism; ‘Bildung' and Practical Reason.
6. CONCLUSION.
Notes.