The Hermeneutics reader : texts of the German tradition from the Enlightenment to the present

Essays discuss reason and understanding, interpretation, language, meaning, the human sciences, social sciences, and general hermeneutic theory.Kurt Mueller-Vollmer is Emeritus Professor of German Studies and Humanities at Stanford University Introduction: Language, Mind And Artifact: An Outline Of Hermeneutic Theory Since The Enlightenment -- 1. Reason And Understanding: Rationalist Hermeneutics -- 2. Foundations: General Theory And Art Of Interpretation -- 3. Foundations: Language, Understanding And The Historical World -- 4. Philological Hermeneutics -- 5. The Hermeneutics Of The Human Sciences -- 6. The Phenomenological Theory Of Meaning And Of Meaning-apprehension -- 7. Phenomenology And Fundamental Ontology: The Disclosure Of Meaning -- 8. Hermeneutics And Theology -- 9. The Historicity Of Understanding -- 10. Hermeneutics And The Social Sciences -- 11. Perspectives For A General Hermeneutic Theory Edited, With An Introduction And Notes, By Kurt Mueller-vollmer. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. 347-361.