The Gadamer reader: a bouquet of the later writings

1. Autobiographical reflections

Part 1. Defining the idea of a philosophical hermeneutics

2. Classical and philosophical hermeneutics

3. The universality of the hermeneutical problem

4. Language and understanding

5. From word to concept: the task of hermeneutics as philosophy

Part 2. Hermeneutics, art, and poetry

6. Aesthetics and hermeneutics

7. On the truth of the word

8. Text and interpretation

9. The artwork in word and image: "so true, so full of being!"

Part 3. Hermeneutics and practical philosophy

10. Hermeneutics as practical philosophy

11. Hermeneutics as a theoretical and practical task

12. Greek philosophy and modern thinking

13. On the possibility of a philosophical ethics

Part 4. Gadamer on Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, and Derrida

14. Plato as portraitist

15. The heritage of Hegel

16. Heidegger and the language of metaphysics

17. Hermeneutics and the ontological difference

18. Hermeneutics tracking the trace [on Derrida]

Part 5. Concluding dialogue with Jean Grondin

19. A look back over the collected works and their effective history.