Cover -- Half Title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics -- Chapter 1: Gadamer's Experience and Theory of Education: -- The Education of Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Gadamer's Vibrant Humanism: Learning from the Classics -- A Culture of Questioning -- Education as a Fusion of Horizons -- The Meaning of Culture -- Education is Self-Education -- Chapter 2: Narrative Competence and the Massive Hermeneutical Background -- Theory of Mind -- Background Conceptions -- First-Order Intersubjective Interactions -- Narrative Competence -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Philosophical Hermeneutics: An Education for all Seasons? -- Prelude: Three Concepts -- A Late Guest -- Problem and Claim -- Disappointed? -- Nothing is Standard -- "Offne dich, mein ganzes Herze": Humanist (Re-)Formation -- A Moving Experience -- Echoes: Humanist Reformations -- The Power of the Useless or "How Philosophy can (indeed) be useful for the benefit of the people"! -- And so? -- Chapter 4: The Education of the Teacher -- The Idea of Bildung -- Humboldtian Education -- Bildung and Truth -- Chapter 5: Dialogue in the Classroom -- Chapter 6: On the Dire Necessity of the Useless: Philosophical and Rhetorical Thoughts on Hermeneutics and Education in the Humanities -- Hermeneutics at the Heart of Being Human -- Listening to Talk in the Cave Allegory -- Seeking Good Company -- Chapter 7: Hermeneutic Education to Understanding: Self-Education and the Willingness to Risk Failure -- The Hermeneutic Teacher -- Understanding Life and Taking Responsibility for Action -- The Imperative of Self-Education -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Education and Exemplars: On Learning to Doubt the Overman -- Out of School: Education and Scholarship from Ivan Illich to Friedrich Nietzsche -- Schooling Society.

How We Become What We Are: On Getting Ourselves a Culture -- Shadows at Midnight: Who is Nietzsche's Übermensch? -- Between Nietzsche's Übermensch and Lucian's Hyperanthropos -- Index.