Sources of Hermeneutics

Jean Grondin is Professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Montreal; Fellow of the Killam Program of the Canada Council and of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation; Director of a Research project on Hermeneutics funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; and Member of the board of a number of journals.

Introduction 1. From Metaphysics to Hermeneutics

2. The Task of Hermeneutics in Ancient Philosophy

3. Husserl's Silent Contribution to Hermeneutics

4. The Ethical and Young Hegelian Sources of Heidegger's Hermeneutics of Factivity

5. Prolegomena to an Understanding of Heidegger's Turn

6. On the Sources of Truth and Method

7. Gadamer and Augustine

8. Gadamer on Humanism

9. Humanism and the Hermeneutical Limits of Rationality

10. The Hermeneutics Intelligence of Language

Notes

Index