Georgia Warnke is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. She is also Director of the Center for Ideas and Society. She is the author of Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason (Polity, 1987), Justice and Interpretation (MIT Press, 1993), Legitimate Differences: Interpretation in the Abortion Controversy and Other Public Debates (University of California Press, 1999), After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Debating Sex and Gender (Oxford University Press, 2010).

This book will, therefore, not only appeal to a philosopher's public, but it will equally capture the mind of anyone interested in contemporary common knowledge and its development.

• IntroductionGeorgia WarnkePart I Critique and Causality1. Critical Fusions: Towards A Genuine ‘Hermeneutics of Suspicion’Lorenzo C. Simpson2. What is Interpretive Explanation in Sociohistorical Analysis?Isaac Ariail Reed3. The Anarchy of Hermeneutics: Interpretation as a Vital PracticeSantiago ZabalaPart II Hermeneutics and Openness4. Elements of Style: Openness and DispositionsWhitney Mannies5. Openness to Critical Reflection: Gandhi beyond GadamerSteven Paul Cauchon6. Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Politics of MemoryGeorgia WarnkePart III Place, Play and the Body7. Place and Hermeneutics: Towards a Topology of UnderstandingJeff Malpas8. Verbal and Nonverbal Forms of Play: Words and Bodies in the Process of UnderstandingMonica VilhauerPart IV Science, Medicine and Biotechnology9. On the Integration of Scientific Knowledge into Self-UnderstandingPeter Fristedt10. A Dialogic Approach to Narrative MedicineLeah McClimans11. If Enhancement is the Answer, What is the Question?Lauren Swayne BartholdContributorsIndex