Series: Yale Studies in Hermeneutics

In this historical introduction to philosophical hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyses conflicts among various interpretive schools, and provides a persuasive critique of Gadamer's view of hermeneutic history. Though in other ways, Gadamer's Truth and Method serves as a model for Grondin's approach. Grondin begins with brief overviews of the pre-19th-century thinkers Philo, Origen,...