Unquiet understanding : Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics

Content: Philosophical hermeneutics : navigating the approaches --
Eleven theses on philosophical hermeneutics --
Hermeneutical understanding requires difference --
Philosophical hermeneutics promotes a philosophy of experience --
Philosophical hermeneutics entails a commitment to hermeneutic realism --
Philosophical hermeneutics seeks otherness within the historical --
Philosophical hermeneutics reinterprets transcendence --
Philosophical hermeneutics entails an ethical disposition --
Hermeneutic understanding redeems the negativity of its constituting differential --
Philosophical hermeneutics affirms an ontology of the in-between --
Philosophical hermeneutics is a philosophical practice rather than a philosophical method --
Philosophical hermeneutics is a negative hermeneutics --
Philosophical hermeneutics looks upon linguistic being as a \"mysterium\" --
Philosophical hermeneutics and the question of openness --
Philosophical hermeneutics and bildung --
Bildung as a transformative and formative process --
Bildung and tradition --
Bildung and the question of essence --
Bildung and the in-between --
Bildung and hermeneutical practice --
Bildung and subject-matter (die sache selbst) --
Sachen as a totality of meaning --
Die sachen and negative dialectics --
Die sachen and plato\'s forms --
Sachen, cultural communities and cortesia --
\"Bildung\" and the question of nihilism --
Conclusion --
Intimations of meaning : philosophical hermeneutics and the defense of speculative understanding --
What is speculative thinking? --
The formal elements of speculative thought --
The speculative motion of hermeneutic experience --
The defence of speculative understanding --
The speculative and the humanistic --
Speculative insight and the \"unfounding\" of experience --
Language and the dialectic of speculative experience --
Nietzsche, philosophical hermeneutics, language, and the market place --
Entr\'acte --
Understanding\'s disquiet --
The wantonness of understanding --
Four responses to deconstructive criticism --
Philosophical hermeneutics and the question of alterity --
Nihilism and the life of understanding --
Dialogue and dialectic --
Language, ideas and sachen --
Keeping the word in play --
Choice words --
The poise of the in-between --
The giving word --
Language and withouteness --
Language negation and affirmation : a resumé --
The open and the empty --
Understanding and the disquieting of the self --
Di-alogue and di-stance.