Hermeneutics concerns the art of interpretation and the conditions of human understanding. These essays explore how language, tradition, prejudice, dialogue, and lived experience shape the ways in which we understand texts, the world, ourselves, and other human beings. Particular attention is given to the ethical significance of understanding in social work, professional practice, and everyday encounters.
When We Think We Understand
Hermeneutics, Prejudice, and the Art of Encountering Another Human Being
Hermeneutics in Social Work
Social Work requires human presence.
The Traditions We Live Within Without Noticing Them
Understanding the quiet traditions already living through us,
From Prejudice to Understanding
To live openly within the incomplete understanding that is always part of being human.
Freedom Within Tradition
Freedom begins when we learn to live more consciously within the history we are already part of.
Why We Need Traditions — Even in Modern Societies
Human life requires continuity in order not to dissolve into the restlessness of the immediate moment.
When Truth Comes Before Method
Gadamer, Tradition, and the Understanding in Which We Always Already Stand
Effective History — What We Never Entirely Escape
Wisdom begins with the realization that we always already belong to a history that continues working through us.
Practical Philosophy 