What is the sense of sense? An investigation through contemporary philosophy.

Conceived in full expansion of German idealism, but largely against it, Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics develops the first theory of individual discourse and defines the methods of understanding appropriate to it.

Knowledge is life-form. It depends on the conditions of its production. This relativity is not a limit – it is on the contrary the véry source of the validity of knowledge. Hermeneutical logic is the study of this relativity and its productive power.

Do we know what we are doing when we are reading texts ? Do we know what we are understanding when we become readers ?

Establishing the art of interpretation as a science, that is the objective of G. Fr. Meier's Essay of 1757, the systematic treatise of the most accomplished hermeneutics of Enlightenment rationalism.

The examination of Humboldt's commentators eventually draws a contrasting image of his work, which is entirely devoted, notably through the study of linguistics and languages, to answering the fundamental question: what is man ?

The intelligence necessary to attribute meaning to literary texts relies on the intelligence embodied in the texts themselves. This thought leads Christoph König to ask : How shall we read the works of Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel, Uhland, Rilke, Kafka and Celan ?