Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he holds the Husserl and Heidegger Chair. He is the author of several books, including For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife: Politics, Aesthetics, Metaphysics, also published by SUNY Press. Theodore D. George is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel's Phenomenology, also published by SUNY Press.

"Figal's work launches a renewal of hermeneutics in the broadest sense. Through his investigation of the hermeneutical dimension of experience and of language, he enlarges the scope of hermeneutics to such an extent that it comes to coincide with philosophy as such. Thus, he takes up not only questions concerning understanding and interpretation but also the classical philosophical issues of space and time, of language and speech, and of life and reason. Objectivity is a thoroughly original and rigorous work, which retrieves much of the content of the philosophical tradition while also advancing into the still uncharted territory opened up by recent philosophical thought." — John Sallis, author of Platonic Legacies

• Acknowledgments Translator’s Introduction Preface Introduction I. From Philosophical Hermeneutics to Hermeneutical Philosophy 1. The Human Sciences as Problem 2. Hermeneutics of Facticity 3. Hermeneutics and Practical Philosophy 4. Origin 5. Models of Origin 6. Moments of Origin Chapter 2. Interpretation 7. Carrying Over 8. What Is To Be Interpreted 9. Setting In 10. Exterior Relations 11. Presentative Recognizing 12. Understanding 13. Objectivity Chapter 3. The World as Hermeneutical Space14. Phenomenology15. Space 16. The Concept of World Chapter 4. Freedom 17. Action 18. Deliberation 19. Freedom of Things 20. Shared Freedom 21. Free Contemplation Chapter 5. Language 22. Based on Speech 23. An Individual Simple Sentence 24. Signs 25. Significance 26. Deconstruction of the Voice 27. Positions 28. Written Thought Chapter 6. Time 29. Ubiquitous and With All Things 30. Something Occurs 31. Being in Time 32. Time of Enactment 33. Temporality 34. Constellations of Meaning Chapter 7. Life 35. In Hermeneutical Space 36. Lifting Out and Folding 37. Originariness 38. Form of Life 39. Body and the Body Quick 40. Reason 41. Structure of Life 42. Lack and FullnessNotes Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects Index of Greek Terms

Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he holds the Husserl and Heidegger Chair. He is the author of several books, including For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife: Politics, Aesthetics, Metaphysics, also published by SUNY Press. Theodore D. George is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel's Phenomenology, also published by SUNY Press.

"Figal's work launches a renewal of hermeneutics in the broadest sense. Through his investigation of the hermeneutical dimension of experience and of language, he enlarges the scope of hermeneutics to such an extent that it comes to coincide with philosophy as such. Thus, he takes up not only questions concerning understanding and interpretation but also the classical philosophical issues of space and time, of language and speech, and of life and reason. Objectivity is a thoroughly original and rigorous work, which retrieves much of the content of the philosophical tradition while also advancing into the still uncharted territory opened up by recent philosophical thought." — John Sallis, author of Platonic Legacies

• Acknowledgments Translator’s Introduction Preface Introduction I. From Philosophical Hermeneutics to Hermeneutical Philosophy 1. The Human Sciences as Problem 2. Hermeneutics of Facticity 3. Hermeneutics and Practical Philosophy 4. Origin 5. Models of Origin 6. Moments of Origin Chapter 2. Interpretation 7. Carrying Over 8. What Is To Be Interpreted 9. Setting In 10. Exterior Relations 11. Presentative Recognizing 12. Understanding 13. Objectivity Chapter 3. The World as Hermeneutical Space14. Phenomenology15. Space 16. The Concept of World Chapter 4. Freedom 17. Action 18. Deliberation 19. Freedom of Things 20. Shared Freedom 21. Free Contemplation Chapter 5. Language 22. Based on Speech 23. An Individual Simple Sentence 24. Signs 25. Significance 26. Deconstruction of the Voice 27. Positions 28. Written Thought Chapter 6. Time 29. Ubiquitous and With All Things 30. Something Occurs 31. Being in Time 32. Time of Enactment 33. Temporality 34. Constellations of Meaning Chapter 7. Life 35. In Hermeneutical Space 36. Lifting Out and Folding 37. Originariness 38. Form of Life 39. Body and the Body Quick 40. Reason 41. Structure of Life 42. Lack and FullnessNotes Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects Index of Greek Terms