Part I: Introduction: Hermeneutics Between History and Philosophy Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer Introduction by translators I. History as a Problem: On Being Historically Affected 1. Is There a Causality in History? 2. Historicity and Truth 3. The History of the Universe and the Historicity of the Human Beings 4. A World Without History? 5. The Old and the New 6. Death as a Question II. The Impetus for Thinking Hermeneutically: On the Task of Dilthey 7. The Problem of Dilthey: Between Romanticism and Positivism 8. Dilthey and Ortega: The Philosophy of Life 9. Hermeneutics and the Diltheyan School III. Confronting Other Intellectual Movements and Disciplines 10. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity, Subject and Person 11. On the Contemporary Relevance of Husserl’s Phenomenology 12. “Being and Nothingness” (Jean-Paul Sartre) 13. Heidegger and Sociology (Bourdieu and Habermas) 14. Hermeneutics On the Trail IV Hermeneutics of Beginnings and Returns: The Case of Heidegger 15. Remembering Heidegger’s Beginnings 16. The Turn in the Path 17. On the Beginning of Thought 18. On the Way Back to the Beginning Index

The translations in this volume are very readable and have a light touch about them, which also enhances access to Gadamer’s thought. By including several essays published well after Truth and Method (1960), the volume promises to make visible the nuances in his later reflections and deepen our insight into the earlier work.