Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- 1900 -- The work -- 1 The Problem of Method and the Project of a Hermeneutics of the Human Sciences -- The problem of the beginning according to Rilke: where does our power to live in a world come from? -- Understanding and event: being rather than consciousness -- The destruction of aesthetics in the name of the humanist tradition -- The Kantian turning-point -- From the aesthetics of taste to that of genius -- The abstraction of aesthetic consciousness -- 2 Truth after Art -- The critique of subjectivism in modern aesthetics: the game of art is elsewhere -- Metamorphosis and recognition -- The temporality of the work of art and the exemplary status of tragedy -- The presentation of truth in the non-performing arts -- Hermeneutic consequences of truth rediscovered in art -- 3 The Destruction of Prejudices in Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics and Epistemology -- The critique of Romantic hermeneutics -- Self-effacement in the historical school -- The three aporiae of Dilthey and historicism -- The phenomenological opening -- 4 Vigilance and Horizon in Hermeneutics -- The constellation of understanding -- Prejudices and things themselves: which aporia? -- Help from temporal distance? -- The silent work of history -- The vigilance of a historically effective consciousness -- The immemorial canonicity of tradition and of the classical -- The ethical vigilance of application -- The mirages of reflexion and the bugbear of relativism -- 5 The Dialogue that We Are -- Towards the uncanny nearness of language -- From Platonic forgetfulness of language to its Augustinian recall -- The conceptualization and the universality of rhetoric -- Conclusion -- The truth of the word -- The speculative truth of language.

The universal aspect of hermeneutics: the universality of aspect or of finitude -- Hermeneutics as metaphysics of finitude -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.