Saulius Geniusas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author or editor of several books and anthologies, including The Origins of the Horizon in Husserl’s Phenomenology (2012), Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination (2018).Paul Fairfield is Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, Canada. He is the author of nine sole-authored books and editor or co-editor of five anthologies. His writings cover themes in philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology, and pragmatism.

• IntroductionPaul Fairfield and Saulius Geniusas Part 1: Figures1. Hegel, Hermeneutics, and Phenomenology, Tom Rockmore, Peking University, China2. Dilthey’s Path: From the Legacy of Boeckh and Droysen to the Foundation of the Human Sciences on a Hermeneutical Logic of Life, Jean-Claude Gens, University of Bourgogne, France3. Husserl’s Hermeneutics: From Intuition of Lived Experiences to the Horizonal Life-World, Dermot Moran, University College Dublin, Ireland4. Towards a Primordial, Pretheoretical Science: The Hermeneutical Turn of Phenomenology in the Young Heidegger’s Thought, Sophie-Jan Arrien, Laval University, Quebec, Canada5. Gadamer and the Philosophy of Science, Lawrence Schmidt, University of Chicago, USA6. Ricoeur’s Unrecognized Debt to Merleau-Ponty, John Arthos, Indiana University Bloomington, USA7. The Stuff that Dreams are Made of: Max Scheler and Paul Ricoeur on Productive Imagination, Saulius Geniusas, The Chinese University of Hong KongPart 2: Themes8. Phenomenology as Hermeneutics, Kevin Hart, University of Virginia, USA9. What ‘Phenomenon’ for Hermeneutics? Remarks on the Hermeneutical Vocation of Phenomenology, Claudio Majolino and Aurélien Djian, University of Lille, France10. Phenomenology and the Givenness of the Hermeneutic Circle, James Mensch, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic11. The Metaphysical Dimension of Hermeneutics, Jean Grondin, University of Ottawa, Canada12. Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Religion: Restoring the Fullness of Knowing, Jens Zimmerman, Trinity Western University, Canada13. Traces of Endings: Interpreting Absence Phenomenologically, Felix Murchadha, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland14. Hermeneutics, Pragmatism, and Foucault, Carlos Prado, Queen's University, Canada15. Hermeneutics and the Critique of Globalization, Gianni Vattimo, independent scholarIndex

Geniusas and Fairfield have assembled an exceptional collection that frames a key problem about the relation between hermeneutics and phenomenology, and reopens this topic on multiple fronts. Indeed, I have the highest praise for this volume. Its contribution could, perhaps, never have been more timely than today.