Jean Grondin is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montreal, Canada.

Grondin's project of metaphysical hermeneutics is a bold attempt to bring the modern question of understanding into dialogue with the classic question of being. It is a timely interrogation of the meaning of life - by showing how we make sense of sense. How we interpret our sensing of the things themselves. A vital and compelling argument.

• Introduction1. Sensus hermeneuticus 2. What is metaphysics? 3. What can a metaphysical hermeneutics have to say about the sense of life?4. The metaphysical dimension of Gadamer’s hermeneutics5. The Metaphysics Behind the Universality of Hermeneutic Understanding

Jean Grondin is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montreal, Canada.

Grondin's project of metaphysical hermeneutics is a bold attempt to bring the modern question of understanding into dialogue with the classic question of being. It is a timely interrogation of the meaning of life - by showing how we make sense of sense. How we interpret our sensing of the things themselves. A vital and compelling argument.

• Introduction1. Sensus hermeneuticus 2. What is metaphysics? 3. What can a metaphysical hermeneutics have to say about the sense of life?4. The metaphysical dimension of Gadamer’s hermeneutics5. The Metaphysics Behind the Universality of Hermeneutic Understanding