A Critique of Hirsch's Validity -- Method in 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 -- Metaphysics as Myth -- Dialogue on Metaphor -- The Hermeneutics of (Inter)Subjectivity, or: The Mind-Body Problem Deconstructed -- The Philosophic Centrality of the Imagination: A Postmodern Approach.