pt. 1. Figures: A critique of Hirsch's Validity -- Method of interpretation -- Husserl's hermeneutical contribution to the explanation-understanding debate -- Merleau-Ponty and postmodernity -- Ricoeur's philosophy of metaphor -- Ricoeur and the hermeneutics of the subject -- Beyond seriousness and frivolity: a Gadamerian response to deconstruction -- pt. 2. Themes: Metaphysics as myth -- Dialogue on metaphor -- Hermeneutics of (inter)subjectivity, or: the mind-body problem deconstructed -- Philosophic centrality of the imagination: a postmodern approach.
