Contenido. Introduction . p.1.-- Part 1. History. Chapter 1. Destruktion-konstruktion: Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur. p.15.-- Part II. Engagements: Chapter 2. The dialectic of belonging and distanciation in gadamer and Ricoeur. p.43.-- Chapter 3. Hermeneutics as project of liberation: the concept of tradition in Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer. p.63.-- Chapter 4. Gadamer's Rhetorical conception of hermeneutics as the key to developing a critical hermeneutics. p.83.-- Chapter 5. Understanding as metaphoric, not a fusion of horizons. p.104.-- Chapter 6. Where is muthos hiding in Gademer's hermeneutics? or, the ontological privilege of emplotment. p.119.-- Chapter 7. Paul Ricoeur's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's diverging reflections on recongnition. p.142.-- Chapter 8. Is phronésis deinom? Ricoeur on tragedy and phronésis. p.156.-- Part III. Part 9. Ricoeur's model of translation and responsible political practice. p.181.-- Part 10. Understanding the body: the revelance of Gadamer's and Ricoeur's view of the body for feminist theory. p.203.-- Part 11. Thing hermeneutics. p.226.-- Part 12. Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and new confucianism. p.241.