PrefaceIntroduction: Language, Mind, Artifact: An outline of Hermeneutic Theory Since the Enlightenment 1. Reason and Understanding: Rationalist HermeneuticsJohann Martin ChladeniusOn the Concept of InterpretationOn the Interpretation of Historical Books and Accounts 2. Foundations: General Theory and Art of InterpretationFriedrich D. E. SchleiermacherGeneral HermeneuticsGrammatical and Technical Interpretation 3. Foundations: Language, Understanding, and the Historical World Wilhelm von HumboldtThe Nature and Conformation of LanguageOn the Task of the Historian Johann Gustav DroysenHistory and the Historical MethodThe Investigation of OriginsThe Modes of Interpretation 4. PhilologicalHermeneuticsPhilip August BoeckhFormal Theory of PhilologyTheory of HermeneuticsTheory of Criticism 5. The Hermeneutics of the Human SciencesWilhelm DiltheyAwareness, Reality: TimeThe Understanding of Other Persons and Their Life-Expressions 6. The Phenomenological Theory of Meaning and of Meaning-ApprehensionEdmund HusserlEssential DistinctionTowards a Characterization of the Acts which Confer Meaning Roman IngardenOn the Cognition of the Literary Work of Art 7. Phenomenology and Fundamental Ontology: The Discourse of MeaningMartin HeideggerBeing-there as UnderstandingUnderstanding and InterpretationAssertion as a Derivative Mode of InterpretationBeing-there and Discourse Language 8. Hermeneutics and TheologyRudolf BultmannIs Exegesis without Presuppositions Possible?The Problem of Demythologizing 9. The Historicity of UnderstandingHans-Georg GadamerThe Discrediting of Prejudice by the EnlightenmentThe Rehabilitation of Authority and TraditionThe Principle of Effective HistoryRhetoric, Hermeneutics, and the Critique of Ideology 10. Hermeneutics and the Social SciencesJurgen HabermasOn Hermeneutics' Claim to Universality 11. Perspectives for a General Hermeneutic TheoryKarl-Otto ApelScientistics, Hermeneutics, Critique of Ideology: An Outline of a Theory of Science from an Epistemological-Anthropological Point of View Bibliography Acknowledgements Index