- ISBN: 9780262570619 | 0262570610
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/14/1983
This collection of probing and lucidly written essays shows Gadamer as the leading Continental philosopher after Heidegger. It is an impassioned defense of practical reason, and of hermeneutics as a mode of practical philosophy, against the twin dangers of scientism and ideological partisanship.