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.