Is transcendental hermeneutics possible?

Rüdiger Bubner

pp. 59-77

in: Juha Manninen, Raimo Tuomela (eds), Essays on explanation and understanding, Berlin, Springer, 1976

Abstract

I'm afraid that my title, "Transcendental Hermeneutics', may impress an English-speaking audience as one of the typical verbal abominations which are supposedly used by teutonic philosophers to intimidate rather than clarify. I will make every effort not to confirm this widespread prejudice. To begin with I should make clear the scope and limits of this paper.