: Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ricœur uses these lectures to bridge the gap between continental hermeneutics and analytic philosophy of language , focusing on logic and discourse. Summary of Major Chapters
: The book opens with a seminal cycle of four lectures from 1988, previously unavailable in French, that outline the history and radicalization of the discipline.
The volume is organized around the "hermeneutic problem," tracing Ricœur’s progression from the study of symbols to the interpretation of texts, and finally to the ethical implications of human action.