A Companion to Hermeneutics is a collection of original essays from leading international scholars that provide a definitive historical and critical compendium of philosophical hermeneutics. * Offers a definitive historical, systematic, and critical compendium of hermeneutics * Represents state-of-the- art thinking on the major themes, topics, concepts and figures of the hermeneutic tradition in philosophy and those who have influenced hermeneutic thought, including Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, Foucault, Habermas, and Rorty * Explores the art and theory of interpretation as it intersects with a number of philosophical and inter- disciplinary areas, including humanism, theology, literature, politics, education and law * Features contributions from