What is hermeneutics? -- Hermeneutics and new foundations : Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey -- Phenomenology and existential hermeneutics : Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger -- Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics -- Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology -- Jürgen Habermas's critical hermeneutics -- Structuralism and Daniel Patte -- Jacques Derrida and deconstruction -- Dialectical theology and exegesis : Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann -- Theological hermeneutics : Anthony Thiselton and Kevin Vanhoozer -- Literary hermeneutics : Alan Culpepper and Stephen Moore.