From Text to Action : Essays in Hermeneutics, II

Foreword to the New Edition ix Acknowledgments xiii Translator's Note xv Preface xvii On Interpretation 1 Part 1: For a Hermeneutical Phenomenology 1 Phenomenology and Hermeneutics 25 2 The Task of Hermeneutics 53 3 The Hermeneutical Function of Distanciation 75 4 Philosophical Hermeneutics and Biblical Hermeneutics 89 Part 2: From the Hermeneutics of Texts to the Hermeneutics of Action 5 What Is a Text? 105 6 Explanation and Understanding 125 7 The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text 144 8 Imagination in Discourse and in Action 168 9 Practical Reason 188 10 Initiative 208 Part 3: Ideology, Utopia, and Politics 11 Hegel and Husserl on Intersubjectivity 227 12 Science and Ideology 246 13 Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology 270 14 Ideology and Utopia 308 15 Ethics and Politics 325 Notes 339