The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics

Abelard, Peter
absolute knowledge
actuality
Adamic myth
Adorno, Theodor W.
Aeschylus
aesthetic consciousness
aesthetic differentiation
aesthetic non-differentiation
aesthetics
- Gadamer’s interpretation of
- and meaning
- and perception
- Winckelmann’s Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works
- see also artwork, the; mimesis; music; painting; poetry
agreement
- and conversation
allegorical interpretation
- see also typological interpretation
alterity
- and language
Ambrose
analogical interpretation
analytical philosophy
- divide with continental philosophy
anamnesis
anatheism
ancient Greek society
ancient philosophical legacy of hermeneutics
- and Aristotelian phronēsis
- language as herměneia and the “logocentric” theory of meaning
- philological and theological hermeneutics
Andrew of St.Victor
anticipations
Antiochene hermeneutics
antipsychologism
anti-reason
Apel, Karl-Otto
application
- of law
- and praxis
- problem of
applied hermeneutics
appropriation
a priori
- historical
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
archaeological hermeneutics
archetypes
Arendt, Hannah
- and authority
- and feminist philosophy
- and Heidegger
Aristophanes
Aristotle
- and authority
- and definition of hermeneutics
- De interpretatione
- doctrine of motion
- epieikeia (equity)
- ergon and energeia
- and ethics
- and experience
- and finitude
- and friendship and goodwill
- and hermeneutic circle
- and identity
- and learning process
- and linguistic meaning
- and memory
- mimesis
- and narrative
- and natural law
- nous
- phronēsis (ethical understanding)
- and recognition
- and rhetoric
- and subjectivity
- syntheke (mutual agreement)
- and theory of metaphor
- and tradition
- treatise on time
Arius
art (technique of understanding)
- and divination
- and philology
artwork, the
- and Dilthey
- and Figal
- and Gadamer
- and Heidegger
- and Kant
- and metaphor and symbol
- and mimesis
- and Nietzsche
- Tracey Emin’s My Bed
- see also literature
assertions
Assman, Aleida
Assman, Jan
augenblick (instant)
Augustine, Saint
- and ancient roots of hermeneutics
- Heidegger’s praise of
- and inner word
- interpretation of scripture
- and language
- and memory
- and narrative
- and time
- and understanding
aussage (declaration)
Austin, Jane
author and authority
authorial intention
authority
- auctor and artifex
- of the author
- Gadamer’s rehabilitation of
- Latin origins of
- relation to prejudice and tradition
- Weber’s treatment of
Ayer, A.J.

Bachelard, Gaston
Bacon, Francis
Badiou, Alain
Balthasar, Hans Urs von
Bambach, Charles R.
Barr, James
Barthes, Roland
Barth, Karl
Barton, John
Basso, Louis
Beardsley, Monroe
beautiful, the
beauty
Beauvoir, Simone de
Becker, Oskar
Bell, David
Bergson, Henri
Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernstein, Charles
Bernstein, Richard
Betti, Emilio
biblical hermeneutics
- and Aquinas
- and Augustine
- and historicism
- and Luther
- Maimonides versus Spinoza
- modern and postmodern
- and Origen
- premodern
- twelfth century monastic
bildung (education)
- Gadamer’s concept of
- Rorty’s transformation of
- and Vattimo
Black, Max
Bloch, Ernst
Bloom, Allan
Blumenberg, Hans
Boeckh, August
Boehme, Rudolf
Bohr, Niels
Bolzano, Bernard
Borges, J.I.
Brandom, Robert
Braver, Lee
Brooks, David
Brown, Raymond E.
Bruns, Gerald
Buber, Martin
Bultmann, Rudolf
Burbules, Nicholas
Burdach, Konrad
Butler, Judith

Cahn, Michael
Cajetan, Cardinal
Calvin, John
Caputo, John D.
care, concept of (Sorge)
caritas
Carnap, Rudolf
Carr, David
Cartesianism
Cassian, John
Cassirer, Ernst
Cavell, Stanley
Celan, Paul
Cézanne, Paul
Childs, Brevard
Chladenius, J.M.
Christological hermeneutics
Chrysostom, Saint John
Cicero
cladistics
clarification
Code, Lorraine
collective memory
communality
communicative rationality
communicative reason
community
comprehending see understanding
Comte, August
concepts
- history of
consciousness and object correlation
continental philosophy
- divide with analytical philosophy
conversation
- and agreement
- and Aristotle
- and Bernstein
- and Gadamer
- and Nietzsche
- and Plato
- and politics
- and Ricoeur
- and Rorty
- and Schleiermacher
- and technology
- and Vattimo
Corax of Syracuse
correlation
Council of Chalcedon
Cox, Christoph
Crease, Robert
crisis theology
critical theory
critique
critique of ideology
culture
- and education
- Greek
- and memory
- and narrative
- nature and
- non-Western
- and prejudice
- and recognition
- Roman
- Rorty and philosophy’s role in
- secular
- and symbols
- and truth
- and unity

Dannhauer, Johann Conrad
Danto, Arthur
Darwin, Charles
Dasein
- and Bultmann
- and Dilthey
- and finitude
- and Gadamer
- and Heidegger
- and Ricoeur
- see also existence
Davey, Nicholas
Davidson, Donald
Dead Sea scrolls
deconstruction
- and Derrida
- and Frei
- and Hegel
- and hermeneutics
- of mimesis
Deleuze, Gilles
democracy
deregionalisation and radicalisation
Derrida, Jacques
- and alterity
- and the analytic-continental divide
- and the author
- criticism of Husserl
- debate with Gadamer
- and deconstruction
- description of Hermes
- différance
- and historicity and temporality
- and logocentrism
- as strong textualist
- and subjectivity
- and understanding
- and weaker hermeneutics
Descartes, René
- discourse with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia
- and prejudice
- and rationality
- and sexual difference
- and subjectivity
- and understanding
destruktion
- of dialectic
- Heidegger’s destruction of the six senses of “History,”
determinant judgment
Dewey, John
dialectic
- language and the speculative dimension of dialectic
- and law
- of the sacred
dialogue
- and deconstruction
- and education
- and finitude
- and Gadamer
- and goodwill and community
- Platonic dialogue
- see also conversation
Diels, Hermann
difference
Dilthey, Wilhelm
- and aesthetics
- and finitude
- foundation for human sciences and identity
- Gadamer’s critique of
- Heidegger’s critique of
- and hermeneutic philosophy of science
- on Husserl
- and identity, history and tradition
- and judgment
- life-philosophy
- and lived experience (Erlebnis)
- and method
- and narrative
- notion of surrounding world
- Ricoeur’s critique of
- and truth
- and understanding
Diodorus of Tarsus
Diogenes Laertius
Diotima of Mantineia
disclosedness
disclosure
- and phronēsis
- world-disclosure
distanciation
Donatist
Dreyfus, Hubert
Droysen, Johann Gustav
Duchamp, Marcel
Dummett, Michael
Dutt, Carsten

earth
Ebenreck, Sara
Eco, Umberto
education
- and hermeneutics
- see also bildung
effective history
eidetic reintegration
Einstein, Albert
Eliade, Mircea
Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess
Ellison, Julie
empathy
empiricism
enactment
encounter
enérgeia
Enlightenment, The
- and authority
- and prejudice
epistemology
- and Dilthey
- and Figal
- and Gadamer
- and Heidegger
- and Husserl
- and Kockelman
- and Nietzsche
- and positivism
- and Rorty
epoché
Erasmus
Eriugena, Johannes Scottus
Eros
eschatological interpretation
esotericism
Essenes
ethics
- Apel’s ethics of discussion
- and Aristotle
- and Gadamer
- hermeneutics and ethical life
- and Luther
Eucharist
eunomia
Evangelicalism
event
- Being
- of the play
- of tradition
- of truth
- of understanding
evil, nature of
evil will
excess
existence see Dasein; epistemology
expectations
experience (Erfahrungen)
- re-experiencing
explanation
- allegorical
- and natural science
- and psychology
- and semantics
explication
expression
- expression concepts
- poetic

Gadamer, Hans-Georg
- and aesthetics and perception
- and application
- and Aristotelian phronēsis
- and authority
- Bernstein’s critique of
- and biblical hermeneutics
- and bildung
- biography
- and Boeckh’s methodology
- Brandom’s critique of
- comparison to Ricouer
- and conceptual history
- and conversation and agreement
- debates and challenges to
- debate with Derrida
- debate with Habermas
- and dialectic
- and dialogue
- and ethics
- and experience
- and facticity
- and finitude
- and German idealism
- and hermeneutic circle
- and hermeneutic philosophy of science
- Hirsch’s critique of
- and historicity and temporality
- and history of the problem of hermeneutics
- and horizonality
- and humanism
- and identity
- and interpretation
- and intersubjectivity
- and judgment
- and language and alterity
- and legal hermeneutics
- and literature
- and memory
- and metaphor and symbol
- and method
- and mimesis
- and narrative
- and natural law
- philosophical hermeneutics
- and play
- and politics
- and positivism
- and prejudice
- and rationality
- reappraisal of Hegel’s philosophy
- and recognition and freedom
- and relativism
- and rhetoric
- Rorty’s critique of
- and textuality
- and tradition and politics
- and truth
- and understanding
- and word, image and concept
Galen
Galilei, Galileo
Gallie, W.B.
Geertz, Clifford
genealogy
general hermeneutics
- see also Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst
generic interpretation
genius
genre, importance of
Gerber, Gustav
Ginev, Dimitri
Ginzberg, Carlo
Glaucon
Gnosticism
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goodrich, Peter
good, the
goodwill
Gorgias
grammatical interpretation
Gregory the Great
Greisch, Jean
Grondin, Jean

Habermas, Jürgen
- and authority
- critique of Foucault
- debate with Gadamer
- and hermeneutic philosophy of science
- and horizonality
- ideal speech situation
- and literature
- and philosophy of science
- and postmetaphysical thinking
- and pragmatism
- and psychoanalysis
- and truth
- and understanding
Hacker, P.M.S.
Hacking, Ian
Halbwachs, Maurice
Hamann, Johann Georg
Hanson, Norwood Russell
Hartmann, Nicolai
Harvey, Lee
Hawking, Stephen
Heelan, Patrick Aidan
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Adorno’s reappraisal of
- and analytic and continental divide
- and bildung
- and dialectic
- Dilthey’s critique of
- and experience and interpretation
- Figal’s critique of
- Gadamer’s interpretation of
- and historicity
- and horizonality
- and identity and social self-interpretation
- and memory
- and method
- and mimesis
- and pragmatism
- and recognition and freedom
- and speculative idealism
- and subjectivity
- and truth
- and understanding
Heidegger, Martin
- and aesthetics and perception
- and ancient roots of hermeneutics
- Apel’s critique of
- and application and praxis
- and biblical hermeneutics
- and bildung
- Carnap’s critique of
- cognition as a mode of interpretation
- concept of World
- and continental philosophy
- destruction of the six senses of “History,”
- and dialectic
- and dialogue
- and ethics
- Figal’s critique of
- and finitude
- and fore-structure of understanding
- and hermeneutic circle
- and hermeneutic philosophy of science
- Hirsch’s critique of
- and historicity and temporality
- and history of hermeneutics
- and horizonality
- and humanism
- Husserl’s influence on
- and identity, history and tradition
- influence on Gadamer
- influence on Ricoeur
- influence on Vattimo
- and judgment
- and language and alterity
- and literature
- and lived experience (Erlebnis)
- and meaning and art
- and memory
- and method
- and mimesis
- Nietzsche’s influence on
- and the ontological turn of hermeneutics
- and phenomenology
- and politics
- and positivism
- and pragmatism
- and prejudice
- priority of understanding over perception
- and rationality
- and recognition and freedom
- and relativism
- Rorty’s critique of
- and semantics
- and sense and meaning
- and subjectivity
- and textuality
- and theory of meaning
- and thinking
- and truth
- and understanding
- and word, image and concept
- see also Dasein
Heisenberg, Werner
Helmholtz, Hermann L.F. von
Hempel, Carl Gustav
Heraclitus
Herder, Johann Gottfried
hermeneutic circle
- and Boeckh
- and Bultmann
- and Dilthey
- and Gadamer
- and Heidegger
- and Hirsch
- and Ricoeur
- and Romano
- roots in antiquity
- and Rorty
- and Schleiermacher
- and Seebohm
hermeneutic communism
hermeneutics
- ancient philosophical legacy of
- history of
- origins and definition
hermeneutic situation
hermeneutics of suspicion
hermeneutics of the Word
Hermes
Herodotus
Hesiod
hierophany
Hilary of Poitiers
Hillel the Elder
Hippocrates
Hirsch, Emmanuel
Hirsch, Eric Donald
- and authorial intention
- biography
- and criticism
- critique of Gadamer
- and genre
- and meaning and significance
- relative readability
- and validity of interpretation
historical understanding
historicism
- and biblical hermeneutics
- and Gadamer
historicity
- and Gadamer
- and Heidegger
- and temporality
- truth within the framework of
history
- effective
- identity, history and tradition
history of hermeneutics
- Gadamer’s history of the problem of hermeneutics
- Heidegger’s destruction of the six senses of “History,”
- Heidegger’s history of the concept of hermeneutics
- Ricouer’s deregionalisation and radicalisation
Hobbes, Thomas
Hölderlin, Friedrich
holy, the
Homer
homiletics
Honneth, Axel
Horace
horizon
- fusion of
Hugh of St.Victor
Huizinga, Johann
humanism
- and Gadamer
- origins and history of
human sciences, the
- and Dilthey
- and Gadamer
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
Hume, David
Husserl Archives
Husserl, Edmund
- and analytic and continental divide
- and antipsychologism
- conception of noesis
- and the correlation between consciousness and object
- Derrida’s criticism of
- on Dilthey
- and empathy
- and horizonality
- influence on Figal
- influence on Gadamer
- influence on Heelan
- influence on Heidegger
- influence on Hirsch
- influence on Ingarden
- influence on Ricoeur
- influence on Schutz
- intentional analysis
- and intersubjectivity
- and the lifeworld
- and lived experience (Erlebnis)
- and logic
- and memory
- and narrative
- and perception
- and recognition and freedom
- and spatiotemporal object
- and subjectivity
- see also phenomenology

labor
laboratory science
Lacan, Jacques
Lachmann, Ludwig
Langer, Susanne
language
- aesthetics and meaning
- and alterity
- and Apel
- Aristotle’s De interpretatione
- and being
- centrality to hermeneutics
- conceptual
- and freedom
- and Gadamer
- and Habermas
- and Heidegger
- as herměneia and the ‘logocentric’ theory of meaning
- philology
- philosophical analysis of
- and Schleiermacher
- semantics
- speculative dimension of
- and subjectivity
- and understanding
- and Wittgenstein
- see also dialectic; dialogue; rhetoric; textuality
Latour, Bruno
law and hermeneutics
- critical legal theory
- hermeneutics and natural law
- legal practice and legal history
law and rhetoric
Le Dœuff, Michèle
legal hermeneutics see law and hermeneutics
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Lévinas, Emmanuel
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien
life-experience
life-philosophy
life-world, the
Lindbeck, George
linguisticality
linguistic turn
listening
- and Gadamer
- and Heidegger
- and Nietzsche
- Riedel’s study of
literal interpretation
literature
- and being
- and ethics
- and narrative
- women’s
lived experience (Erlebnis)
- circular versus recursive
- and Erfahrungen
- erlebnis and lebenswelt
Livius Andronicus
Lloyd, Genevieve
Locke, John
logic
- of the concept
- Hegel’s critique of
- Husserl and Frege
- productive
logic of question and answer
logocentrism
logos
- and Aristotle
- and Augustine
- and Christianity
- and Derrida
- and Gadamer
- and Hegel
- and Heidegger
- and Husserl
- and law
- and Luther
- and Marcus Aurelius
- and theology
Lombard, Peter
Lonergan, Bernard
Loraux, Nicole
Louth, Andrew
Löwith, Karl
Löw, Reinhard
Lubac, Henri de
Lukács, Georg
Luther, Martin
- biblical hermeneutics
- and the history of hermeneutics
- and textuality
- theological framework
- and understanding
Lyotard, Jean-François

MacIntyre, Alasdair
Madison, Gary Brent
Maimonides, Moses
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Manichaeism
Marcel, Gabriel
Marcion of Sinope
Marcus Aurelius
Marder, Michael
Markus, György
martyrdom
Marx Brothers
Marxism
Marx, Karl
McCumber, John
McDowell, John
McNeill, William
Mead, George Herbert
meaning
- and aesthetics
- and art
- and finitude
- and life-experience
- relational
- and sense
- and significance
- theory of
measurement
medieval hermeneutics
Melanchton, Philip
memory
- ambiguity of
- collective
- definition of
mens auctoris
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
metaphor
- Ricoeur’s theory of
- and symbol
metaphysics
- and Bergson
- and Derrida
- and ethics
- and Gadamer
- and politics
- and Vattimo
metaxu (in-between)
method
- and Dilthey
- and Gadamer
- and Heidegger
- recent developments in hermeneutics
- and Ricoeur
- and Rorty
- and Schleiermacher
- and Vattimo
middle, the
midrashic interpretation of scripture
Mill, Harriet Taylor
Mill, John Stuart
mimesis
Mink, Louis
Misch, Georg
misunderstanding
modern art
Monet, Claude
monologocentrism
monologue
Moore, G.E.
Moore, Stephen
moral interpretation
morphology
movement
- casting oneself free
- dialectical
- and horizonality
- of language
- reflective
- revealing and concealing
- temporal
- and understanding
- see also hermeneutic circle
Murphy, Sinead
music
myth and symbol
- Eliade
- Ricoeur
myths
- and Bultmann
- and Eliade
- and rhetoric
- and Ricoeur

Nabert, Jean
narrative
- definition of
- and explanation and understanding
- and reality
narrative identity
narrative realism
National Socialism
Natorp, Paul
natural law
natural sciences, the
- and Dilthey
- and explanation
- and Gadamer
- and Heidegger
- and Hirsch
- and Husserl
- and Nietzsche
- and Polanyi
- and Rorty
nature
- and art
- interpretation of
- and labor
- and mimesis
- and subjectivity
- and theology
- worship of
- see also natural sciences, the
Nazism see National Socialism
negation
negativity
neo-Kantianism
Neo-Marxism
Neo-platonism
neopositivism
Neuhaus, John
Newton, Isaac
Nicholson, Graeme
Niethammer, Friedrich Immanuel
Nietzsche, Friedrich
- and aesthetics and perception
- and bildung
- and conversation and agreement
- and dialectic
- Gay Science
- and hermeneutic philosophy of science
- and hermeneutics of suspicion
- and historicity
- and history
- and humanism
- influence on Derrida
- influence on Heidegger
- influence on Rorty
- and language and alterity
- and nihilism
- and objectivity
- and perspectivism
- and rationality
- and recognition and freedom
- and relativism
- and Ricoeur
- and symbolism
- and theology
- and tradition and politics
- and truth
- and understanding
- will to power
nihilism
Nora, Pierre
Nordmann, Alfred
Norman, Andrew
normativity
nothingness
nous
Nussbaum, Martha

painting
Pareyson, Luigi
Parmenides
Parsons, Talcott
participation
Pauline Epistles
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Peitho (persuade)
perception
- and aesthetics
- and Aristotle
- and Dilthey
- and Gadamer
- and Heidegger
- and Husserl
- and Merleau-Ponty
- and Ricoeur
- and Rorty
- and Royce
Perelman, Chaïm
performance sense
personal identity see identity
perspectivism
persuasion
- see also rhetoric
pesher interpretation of scripture
Phaleas of Chalcedon
phenomenology
- and hermeneutics
- and narrative
- of the sacred
- of the trace
- see also Husserl, Edmund
philological hermeneutics
- see also Boeckh, August
Philo of Alexandria
philosophical hermeneutics
- and the ancient philosophical legacy
philosophy
- ancient
- modern
- of science
phronēsis (ethical understanding)
Pippin, Robert
Plato
- and authority
- and concepts
- and dialectic
- and ethics
- and goodwill
- and hermeneutic circle
- influence on Boeckh
- influence on Figal
- influence on Gadamer
- and language and alterity
- and medieval hermeneutics
- and memory
- and mimesis
- and origins of hermeneutics
- and philosophy
- and politics
- and reflective argument
- and rhetoric
- and theology
- theory of Forms
- and tradition
- and western philosophy
- and writing
Platonic dialogue
Platonism
play
- and historicity and temporality
- and historicity and universality
Plotinus
Plutarch
poesis
poetry
- and aesthetics
- and ancient roots of hermeneutics
- and continental philosophy
- and Derrida
- and Gadamer
- Georg Trakl
- Mallarmé
- and mimesis
- Paul Celan
- and play
- poetic language
- and Ricoeur
- and semantics
- Song of Songs
Polanyi, Michael
pólis see community
politics
- and Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics
- and power
- and tradition
Popper, Karl
Porphyry
portrait
positivism
- see also neopositivism
post-modernism
power
- and politics
practical philosophy
pragma
pragmatism
- classical American
- neo-pragmatism
praxis
- and application
prejudice
- and Gadamer
- and Habermas
- and Heidegger
- and Herder
- of the interpreter
- and Nietzsche
- and Schleiermacher
presentation
- self-presentation
presuppositions
pre-understanding
- of humanistic tradition
- and prejudice
Pritchard, John
Proclus
Protective Circle (PC)
Protestantism
Proust, Marcel
prudence
psychoanalysis
psychology
- authorial
- and Dilthey
- and Heidegger
- and memory
- of sensations

radicalisation and deregionalisation
Rambach, Johannes Jakob
Ranciere, Jacques
Ranke, Leopold von
Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki)
rationality
- and biblical hermeneutics
- communicative
- scientific
Ratzinger, Cardinal Joseph
reading
reason
- and Kant
- see also rationality
receptivity
reciprocity
recognition and freedom
recollection
reductionism
re-experiencing
reflective interpretation
reflective judgment
reflective understanding
regions
relative readability
relativism
religion
- general and biblical hermeneutics
- hermeneutics of suspicion
- historicism and biblical hermeneutics
- and origins of hermeneutics
- phenomenology of the sacred and the hermeneutics of the Word
- see also biblical hermeneutics
Renaissance
repetition
- motific
representation
response
responsibility
revolution see French Revolution
Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg
rhetoric
- ancient
- and audience
- and Augustine
- and Gadamer
- and hermeneutic circle
- and humanism
- legal context
- Maimonides versus Spinoza
- and method
- and Nietzsche
- and Origen
- and Schleiermacher
Richards, I.A.
Rickert, Heinrich
Ricoeur, Paul
- and aesthetics
- and analytic and continental divide
- and authority
- and biblical hermeneutics
- conception of hermeneutics
- critique of Boeckh
- critique of Dilthey
- critique of Rorty
- deregionalisation and radicalisation
- and ethics
- and finitude
- and Gadamer
- and hermeneutic circle
- and hermeneutic philosophy of science
- and the hermeneutics of suspicion
- and the hermeneutics of the Word
- and historicity and temporality
- and horizonality
- and identity
- and image
- and judgment
- and law
- and literature
- and memory
- and metaphor and symbol
- and method
- and narrative
- and phenomenology
- philosophy of the will
- and play
- and recognition and freedom
- symbol and myth
- and textuality
Riedel, Manfred
rigor
Risser, Jim
ritual
Roman Law
Romano, Claude
Roman society
Romantic hermeneutics
Romanticism
Rorty, Richard
- and analytic and continental divide
- and Anglo-American philosophy
- and conversation
- entanglements with hermeneutics
- and Gadamer’s hermeneutics
- and Heidegger
- as a hermeneutical philosopher
- and hermeneutic philosophy of science
- and method
- and pragmatism
- and relativism
- and truth
Rössler, Beate
Rouse, Joseph
Royce, Josiah
Russell, Bertrand
Russell, G.E.
Russell, Stephen
Ryle, Gilbert

sache
Sachhaltigkeit
sacred
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Schapp, Wilhelm
Scheler, Max
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph
schematism
Schiller, Friedrich
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst
- and aesthetics
- and application and praxis
- and authority
- and biblical hermeneutics
- and dialogue and community
- and empathy
- and feminist philosophy
- Gadamer’s critique of
- and general hermeneutics
- Heidegger’s critique of
- and hermeneutic circle
- and hermeneutic philosophy of science
- and humanism
- influence on Boeckh
- influence on Dilthey
- influence on Gadamer
- influence on Heelan
- influence on Heidegger
- influence on Hirsch
- intellectual and cultural context of hermeneutics
- and language and alterity
- and meaning and art
- and method
- and misunderstanding
- Ricouer’s critique of
- and textuality
- and truth
- and understanding
Schlick, Moritz
Schmidt, Dennis
Scholasticism
- see also medieval hermeneutics
Schutz, A.
science
- hermeneutic philosophy of
- and modern rationality
Scott-Baumann, Alison
Scripture
- see also biblical hermeneutics; medieval hermeneutics; Pauline Epistles
Seebohm, Thomas
self-consciousness
self-determination
self-knowledge
self-understanding
- and Bultmann
- and Dilthey
- and Gadamer
- and Heidegger
- and Ricoeur
- and Schleiermacher
- and Taylor
semantics
semiotics
Seneca
Sennett, Richard
sense and meaning
sensus communis
shame
signs
- Augustine’s theory of
- Peirce’s theory of
- Royce’s theory of
Simmel, Georg
Simon, Josef
Sims, Jeffrey
situation
Sloterdijk, Peter
social phenomena
social recognition
Socrates
- and the beautiful
- and dialectic
- and dialogue
- and ethics
- and Greek society
- and ignorance
- and mimesis
- and politics
- and politics and philosophy
- and rhetoric
- and text
solidarity
Solon
sophia
Sophists
Sophocles
space
speaking
Specht, Ernst Konrad
speculative dimension of language
speculative, the
Spinoza, Baruch
Spinoza, Benedict de
spirit
Stambaugh, Joan
Stegmüller, Wolfgang
Stout, Jeffrey
Strauss, Leo
strong thought
structuralism
Stylianopoulos, Theodore G.
subjectivity
- and Dilthey
- and Figal
- and Gadamer
- and Heidegger
- and Heidegger, Marx and Foucault
- and memory
- and modern philosophy
- and Ricoeur
- and Sartre
- singular
- transcendental
- see also intersubjectivity
subject, the
substance
suspicion
- see also Freud, Sigmund; Marx, Karl; Nietzsche, Friedrich
symbol, and metaphor
symbol and myth
- and Eliade
- and Ricoeur
Szondi, Peter

tact
taste
Taylor, Charles
- and identity
- and recognition and freedom
techne (skill)
technology
- modern
- and modern rationality
Tell, Håkan
temporal distance
temporality
- and historicity
testimony
text see narrative; reading; textuality
textuality
theater
Theodore of Mopsuestia
theology and hermeneutics
- Christiological hermeneutics
- the Eucharist
- Trinitarian hermeneutics
thinking
- critical
- and Descartes
- discursive
- and Gadamer
- and Hegel
- and Irigaray
- and Schleiermacher
- scientific
- and signs
- and Vattimo
thrownness
time
- and Derrida
- and Heidegger
- and identity
- and memory
- and narrative
- see also temporality
tone
Tougas, Cecile T.
Tracy, David
tradition
- and authority
- and politics
tragedy
transcendence
transcendental idealism
transcendental philosophy
transformation
translation
transmission
Trinitarian hermeneutics
tropological interpretation see moral interpretation
truth
- and art
- within the framework of historicity
- objectivity and ideology
Tyconius
typological interpretation