The essays included in this volume are illustrative of the depth and breadth of possibilities provided by hermeneutic philosophy and by a hermeneutically oriented phenomenology. Among the topics considered, the questions explored, are: How is hermeneutics situated within the general, twentieth century philosophical climate? What is its genuine essence, its logos? How does hermeneutics relate to traditional philosophy? To Kant? To Hegel? To Husserl? What possibilities does hermeneutics offer for a philosophy of the future? What does it have to say about science, about art, about values, about rationality and its limits, about what it means to be who we are? Such are the questions of this volume, The Question of Hermeneutics. Contributors include such well known philosophers as Otto Pöggeler, Karl-Otto Apel, Calvin Schrag, Walter Biemel, James Edie, Thomas Seebohm, Adriaan Peperzak, and others.

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Foreword: Joseph Kockelmans: a Biographical Note; P. Kerszberg. Editor's Introduction; T.J. Stapleton. Section I: Hermeneutic Rationality? The Future of Hermeneutic Philosophy; O. Pöggeler. Regulative Ideas or Sense-Events? An Attempt to Determine the Logos of Hermeneutics; K.-O. Apel. Transversal Rationality; C. Schrag. Toward a Systematic Interpretationism; H. Lenk. Section II: Hermeneutic Origins: Husserl and Phenomenology. Husserl's Kant Reception and the Foundations of his Transcendental Phenomenological First Philosophy'; *G. Funke.* The Transformation in Husserl's Later Philosophy; *W. Biemel.* The Question of the Transcendental Ego: Sartre's Critique of Husserl; *J.M. Edie.* Section III: Hermeneutics and Ontology: Heidegger. *Kriegsnotsemester* 1919: Heidegger's Hermeneutic Breakthrough; *T. Kisiel.* Heidegger and Categorial Intuition; *T.J. Stapleton.* Considerations on Der Satz vom Grund'; T.M. Seebohm. Gadamer and Derrida as Interpreters of Heidegger; R.E. Palmer. Section IV: Hermeneutics and the Worlds of Sciences. Against Transcendental Empiricism; B.C. van Fraassen. Being and Knowing in Modern Physical Science; P. Kerszberg. Galileo, Luther, and the Hermeneutics of Natural Science; P.A. Heelan. Phenomenological Excavation of Archaeological Cognition; L. Embree. Heidegger and Computers; M. Heim. Section V: Hermeneutics, Art, and Ethics. The Enigma of Art: Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience or Archaeology of the Work of Art? A.L. Kelkel. Ethics in our Time; A. Peperzak. Bibliography of Joseph J. Kockelmans. Index.