Acknowledgments
Introduction: Consequences of Hermeneutics
Jeff Malpas and Santiago Zabala
Part I. Origins, Elements, and Traditions
1 Gadamer's Hidden Doctrine: The Simplicity and Humility of Philosophy
James Risser
2 Truth, Method, and Transcendence
Nicholas Davey
3 Gadamer's Platonism: His Recovery of Mimesis and Anamnesis
Robert J. Dostal
4 The Tradition of Tradition in Philosophical Hermeneutics
Robert T. Valgenti
5 Inside and Outside Hermeneutics: Contributions Toward a Reconstructive Reason
Alberto Martinego
6 The Hermeneutics of Everydayness: On the Legacy and Radicall
William McNeill
7 Two Contrasting Heideggerian Elements in Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics
Richard E. Palmer
8 In the Nets of Tradition: A Hermeneutic Analysis Concerning the Historicity of Human Cognition
Hans-Helmuth Gander
Part II. Conversation, Understanding, and Language
9 Gadamer and Rorty: From Interpretation to Conversation
C. G. Prado
10 Being Is Conversation: Remains, Weak Thought, and Hermeneutics
Santiago Zabala
11 "Being Able to Love and Having to Die": Gadamer and Rilke
Christoph Jamme
12 Nihilistic or Metaphysical Consequences of Hermeneutics?
Jean Grondin
13 Critique: The Heart of Philosophical Hermeneutics
Lawrence K. Schmidt
14 "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," or Nietzsche and Hermeneutics in Gadamer, Lyotard, and Vattimo
Babette Babich
15 The Condition of Hermeneutics: The Implicative Structure of Understanding
Gaetano Chiurazzi
Part III. Practice, Politics, and Ethics
16 The Origin of Understanding: Event, Place, Truth
Jeff Malpas
17 The Political Outcome of Hermeneutics: To Politics Through Art and Religion
Gianni Vattimo
18 What Is the Ethics of Interpretation?
Pol Vandevelde
19 Political Hermeneutics, or Why Schmitt Is Not the Enemy of Gadamer
Michael Marder
20 Sex, Gender, and Hermeneutics
Georgia Warnke
21 Being as Dialogue, or The Ethical Consequences of Interpretation
Hans-Herbert Kögler
Bibliography
Index
Contributors