Intention and Interpretation: A Short History

Scholars from history, law, literature, theology and philosophy test Gadamer's Truth and Method against their own fields. A strong way to see how philosophical hermeneutics works in practice across the humanities.

Madeleine Kasten, Herman Paul & Rico Sneller (eds.)

A concise history of the theory of interpretation by a leading scholar of German philosophy. Forster follows the tradition from Ernesti and Herder through Schleiermacher and Dilthey to Heidegger and Gadamer, and weighs what each one got right.

Michael N. Forster

An introduction to hermeneutics as a philosophical method, read through the major African thinkers who use it. Wolff shows how interpretation becomes a tool for cultural and political liberation after colonialism.

Ernst Wolff

A doctoral study that links Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics with Hans Robert Jauss's reception theory and applies both to the Bible. It shows how a text's meaning grows through the history of its readers.

David Parris

Essays in dialogue with Richard Kearney, one of the leading voices in hermeneutic philosophy after Ricoeur. They explore his diacritical hermeneutics, hospitality to the stranger and the return to God after God.

Daniël P. Veldsman & Yolande Steenkamp (eds.)