Contains 13 essays from "Kleine Schriften", dealing with hermeneutical reflection, phenomenology, existential philosophy, and philosophical hermeneutics. This book applies hermeneutical analysis to Heidegger and Husserl's phenomenology.

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Editor's Introduction Part 1: The Scope of Hermeneutical Reflection I. The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem (1966) 2. On the Scope and Function of Hermeneutical Reflection (1967) 3. On the Problem of Self-Understanding (1962) 4. Man and Language (1966) 5. The Nature of Things and the Language of Things (1960) 6. Semantics and Hermeneutics (1972) 7. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964) Part II: Phenomenology, Existential Philosophy, and Philosophical Hermeneutics 8. The Philosophical Foundations of the Twentieth Century (1962) 9. The Phenomenological Movement (1963) 10. The Science of the Life-World (1969) 11. Martin Heidegger and Marburg Theology (1964) 12. Heidegger's Later Philosophy (1960) 13. Heidegger and the Language of Metaphysics (1967) Index