Contents

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Introduction

1 Living through a Century

2 The Event of Truth

3 Lingering in Art

4 On the Way to Philosophical Hermeneutics

5 The Constellation of Understanding

6 An Ethics Close to Life

7 The Enigma of Socrates: Philosophical Hermeneutics and Greek Philosophy

8 The Horizon of Dialogue

9 Hermeneutics as Philosophy

10 Keeping the Dialogue Going

INDEX OF NAMES

INDEX OF TERMS