This text addresses relativism from the perspective of Gadamer's hermeneutics. This collection of essays explores several of the key issues in contemporary philosophy - the nature of truth, the model of conversation, and the possibility of an ethics in postmodern conditions.

On the composition of ""Truth and Method"", Jean Grondin; hermeneutical truth and the structure of human experience - Gadamer's critique of Dilthey, Tom Nenon; Gadamer's hermeneutic and the overcoming of epistemology, Tom Rockmore; understanding, interpreting and agreeing, Lawrence K. Schmidt; three puzzles from Gadamer's hermeneutics, Joseph Margolis; Caputo's critique of Gadamer - hermeneutics and the metaphorics of person, Frank Ambrosio; hermeneutics of the possible - on finitude and truth in philosophical hermeneutics, James Risser; on the truth of the word, Hans-Georg Gadamer; the art of dialogue and the hermeneutic ideal, Robert Bernasconi; towards a discursive logic - Gadamer and Toulmin on inquiry and argument, P. Christopher Smith; understanding and willing, Kees Vuyk; play and ethics in culturus interruptus - Gadamer's hermeneutics in postmodernity, Marc J. LaFoutain; Gadamer, Foucault, and Habermas on ethical critique, Michael Kelly; phronesis as understanding - situating philosophical hermeneutics, Gunter Figal.