Die Beiträger dieses Bandes widmen sich der Frage nach der Notwendigkeit und den Möglichkeiten einer Erneuerung der Hermeneutik in der Gegenwart - in einer Zeit, in der Erfahrung, Existenz, Sprache, Sinn und Interpretation durch tiefgreifende kulturelle, technologische und ethische Umbrüche herausgefordert sind.

Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Anna Novokhatko, Theodore George: Introduction: Towards a Living Hermeneutics - 1. Dennis J. Schmidt: What to Do? - 2. Tobias Keiling: Mourning for Certainty: Historical Consciousness in the Anthropocene - 3. Theodore George: To Become Undogmatic is to Learn to Live in Ambiguity: Gadamer and Figal on the Hermeneutics of Education (Bildung) - 4. Mirela Oliva: How do Living Beings Reveal Things? On Figal's Aristotelian Hermeneutics of Life - 5. Niall Keane: On Limits and Limitlessness: Revisiting Gadamer's Reflections on Being and Language - 6. Eddo Evink: Sense, Understanding and Language in Gadamer and Nancy, together in a Hermeneutical Metaphysics of Play - 7. Lucas Gronouwe: Interpretation Beyond the Nature-Culture Divide: A Latourian Transformation of the Hermeneutic Context - 8. Gaetano Chiurazzi: Rethinking the Ontological Difference: Asymmetry, Subtraction, Contingency - 9. Gert-Jan van der Heiden: From Judge to Historian: Witnessing as a Hermeneutic Concern - 10. Adriani Milli Rodrigues: The Epistemology of Testimony and the Hermeneutics of Testimony in Dialogue: Approaching the Interpretive Nature of Testimony - 11. Anna Novokhatko: Hermeneutics and Phenomenology of Body in Ancient Greek Comedy - 12. James Risser: Rhythm-Life-Art - 13. John Sallis: On Conducting

This volume is comprised of contributions from internationally respected scholars dedicated to the theme of "The Future of Hermeneutics." These contributions are gathered from research originally presented at the annual International Hermeneutics Symposium in 2023 and 2024. The topic, "The Future of Hermeneutics," means to draw attention not only to the relevance of research in hermeneutics for our future, but also current developments in hermeneutics that will shape research in the field to come. Hermeneutics originally taught us how to approach texts, authors, and the act of reading itself. Yet today, when experience, existence, language, meaning, and interpretation are challenged by shifting cultural, technological, and ethical contexts, hermeneutics calls for renewal, while staying true to its original calling to be an open and receptive practice of understanding. By attending to the dialogical nature of texts, the fragility of truth, the material circumstances of nature and culture, and the responsibilities of interpretation, hermeneutics offers new perspectives for engaging with the world, aiming to preserve the bonds between word and world, between experience, interpretation, and life. This volume, then, represents research completed in connection with the International Hermeneutics Symposium. The International Hermeneutics Symposium has a long history, dating back to the late 1980s. It was originally set up by students of Hans-Georg Gadamer in Heidelberg to further philosophical hermeneutics in conversation with Gadamer. Among the people participating in the Heidelberg Symposium were renowned scholars such as Donatella di Cesare, Nicholas Davey, Günter Figal, Jean Grondin, James Risser, John Sallis, Dennis J. Schmidt, Lawrence Schmidt, and Ben Vedder. In the decades since, the International Hermeneutics Symposium has seen changes in both institutional setting and publication format. Beginning in 2024, the International Hermeneutics Symposium has found a new home at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. The symposium is still dedicated to research in the spirit of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and to fostering intellectual bonds over shared philosophical concerns and intuitions. The contributions to the symposium will continue to be published, even though from this year onwards in a different, updated form, no longer as a Yearbook, but as a volume in a new series Mohr Siebeck initiated: Post-Kantian European Philosophy.