Introduction to philosophical hermeneutics

Part 1 On the prehistory of hermeneutics: linguistic delimitations the semantics of Hermeneuein allegorical interpretations of myth Philo - the universality of allegory Origen - the universality of typology Augustine - the Universality of the inner logos Luther - sola scriptura? Flacius - the universality of the grammatica1. Part 2 Hermeneutics between grammar and critique: Dannhauer - true interpretation and interpretive truth Chladenius - the universality of the pedagogical Meier - the universality of signs pietism - the universality of the affective. Part 3 Romantic hermeneutics and Schleiermacher: the post-Kantian transition from the enlightenment to romanticism - Ast and Schlegel Schleiermacher's universalization of misunderstanding limiting hermeneutics to psychology? the dialectical ground of hermeneutics. Part 4 The problems of historicism: Boch and the dawn of historical awareness Droysen's universal historiology - understanding as research in the moral world dilthey - on the way to hermeneutic. Part 5 Heidegger - hermeneutics as the interpretation of existence: the fore of fore-understanding its transparency in interpretation the idea of a philosophical hermeneutics of facticity the derivative status of statements? hermeneutics after the turn. Part 6 Gadamer and the universe of hermeneutics: back to the human sciences the overcoming of historicist hermeneutics effective history as principle understanding as questioning and therefore application language as dialogue the universality of the hermeneutic universe. Part 7 Hermeneutics in dialogue: Betti's epistemological return to the inner spirit Habermas's critique of hermeneutics in the name of agreement the deconstructive challenge to hermeneutics.