Analecta Hermeneutica

As the journal of the International Institute of Hermeneutics (IIH), it is the mission of Analecta Hermeneutica to provide a space for the most current and sophisticated thinking about all matters concerned with human being together initiated by the claims of philosophical hermeneutics. We inherit twelve years of exemplary work from Sean McGrath who edited Analecta Hermeneutica since co-founding the journal in 2009. We are grateful to have, in Professor McGrath’s excellent work, such a promising trajectory for the journal’s future and a rich archive of issues curated by his studious hand. For a hermeneutics yet to come, the question is and will remain not if we are hermeneutical at heart but rather how accomplished will our hermeneutics be in the 21st century and beyond? This pressing question, one attendant to every other question addressing us, arises from the very structure of our being-in-the-world; indeed, as Gadamer reminds us:

“. . . interpretation does not occur as an activity in the course of life, but is the form of human life.” We much look forward the challenges and pleasures of editing future issues where it be necessary both to critique and edify various forms of life that stands as the impetus to practice hermeneutic philosophy.