Contents -- Introduction -- Life -- Existence -- Knowledge and Interpretation -- Tragic Thought and Ontology of Freedom -- Conclusion -- Works -- Bibliography -- Existence -- Existence and Existentialism -- The unity of philosophy -- The existential nature of ethics -- Knowledge -- Intuition as interpretation -- Interpretation as coincidence of thing and image -- Knowledge of things and persons as interpretation -- Knowledge of things by persons -- Art: Performance and Interpretation -- Truth, Interpretation and the Critique of Ideology -- Truth and history -- Philosophy and ideology -- Originarity of interpretation -- Thought without truth -- Critique of ideology -- Ontology of Freedom -- Hermeneutics and Tragic Thought -- Revelatory nature of myth -- Philosophical reflection on religious experience -- Interpretation of myth as hermeneutics of religious consciousness -- Philosophy of freedom -- Suffering and faith -- Notes -- Index.