Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he holds the Husserl and Heidegger Chair. He is the author of several books, including For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife: Politics, Aesthetics, Metaphysics, also published by SUNY Press. Theodore D. George is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel's Phenomenology, also published by SUNY Press.

Acknowledgments
Translator's Introduction
Preface
Introduction
I. From Philosophical Hermeneutics to Hermeneutical Philosophy

1. The Human Sciences as Problem
2. Hermeneutics of Facticity
3. Hermeneutics and Practical Philosophy
4. Origin
5. Models of Origin
6. Moments of Origin
Chapter 2. Interpretation

7. Carrying Over
8. What Is To Be Interpreted
9. Setting In
10. Exterior Relations
11. Presentative Recognizing
12. Understanding
13. Objectivity
Chapter 3. The World as Hermeneutical Space
14. Phenomenology
15. Space
16. The Concept of World
Chapter 4. Freedom
17. Action
18. Deliberation
19. Freedom of Things
20. Shared Freedom
21. Free Contemplation
Chapter 5. Language
22. Based on Speech
23. An Individual Simple Sentence
24. Signs
25. Significance
26. Deconstruction of the Voice
27. Positions
28. Written Thought
Chapter 6. Time
29. Ubiquitous and With All Things
30. Something Occurs
31. Being in Time
32. Time of Enactment
33. Temporality
34. Constellations of Meaning
Chapter 7. Life
35. In Hermeneutical Space
36. Lifting Out and Folding
37. Originariness
38. Form of Life
39. Body and the Body Quick
40. Reason
41. Structure of Life
42. Lack and Fullness
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Index of Greek Terms