The Roots of Hermeneutics in Kant's Reflective-Teleological Judgment

Introduction: Gadamer - Benchmark of Hermeneutics.- The Chiastic Structure of Kant's Critical Concepts.- Kant's Proto-Hermeneutics.- Kant's Conception of Natural Language.- Ast, Schleiermacher, Dilthey: Hermeneutics as Inductive Reconstruction.- Husserl and Ingarden: Hermeneutic Intentionality.- Heidegger: Being and the Hermeneutics of Pro-jection.- Ricoeur: Hermeneutics as Self-Recognition.- Apel and Habermas: Emancipatory Hermeneutics.- Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard: Decentred Hermeneutics.- Vattimo, Nancy, Caputo: Hermeneutics in the Shadow of Nihilism.- Conclusion: Hermeneutics of the Absolute.