Table of Contents

Emilio Betti: A Short Bibliography Some Untidy Reflections on Betti-Gadamer Debate Editorial Preface 1. Hermeneutical Problematics in Contemporary Consciousness 2. Objectivations of the Spirit 3. Representative Forms 4. Representative Function & Expressive Value 5. To Interpret and to Understand 6. The Act of Interpretation as a Triadic Process 7. Inversion of the Creative Process and Transposition into one another Subjectivity 8. The Directives of Interpretation: The Canon of the Hermeneutical Autonomy of the Object 9. The Canon of the Coherence of Meanings (The Principle of Totality) 10. Analogy and Integrative Development 11. Canon of the Actuality of Understanding 12. Vital Rapport with the Subject-Matter & the Direction of the Inquiry 13. Is it possible to Achieve the Objectivity of the Historical Phenomena? 14. The Function of Sensibility for the Values proper of the Historian: The Value-relating Interpretation 15. The Answer to the Proposed Historical Question 16. Meaning of a Historical Phenomenon and its Significance in the Present 17. Dialog and Monolog 18. Historical Interpretation and Attribution of an Eschatological Meaning 19. The Risk of the Denial of Objectivity 20. Theological Hermeneutics and Demythologizing of the Kerygma 21. Recent Turn toward the Historicity of Understanding 22. The Prejudices as the Conditions of the Understanding 23. Existential Foundation of the Hermeneutic Circle 24. The Problem of the Correctness of the Understanding 25. Historical Understanding as Mediation of Past and the Present 26. Claim of a Practical Application of Interpretation 27. The Mentioned Claim is Justified only if the Interpretation is Normatively Oriented 28. Canon of the Hermeneutical Correspondence of Meaning (Adequation of Meaning in Understanding) 29. The Character as a Work of Historical Forms of Life Proposes a Problematics of the Higher Grade 30. The Technical Morphologic Interpretation in rapport to the Prospected Problems of Formation 31. Context of Meanings & Styles as Products of the Autonomy of the Spiritual Human Faculties

About the Author

Emilio Betti (1890-1968) was an Italian jurist, Roman Law scholar and philosopher.