This forum follows Truth and Method, chapters 1 to 4, as the map reads them: formed knowing, play and presentation, belonging, and hermeneutic experience. Each chapter is a route of six to nine stations in the chapter's own order.

From the map. DG Humana Institute developed Hermeneutics in Common to ask how understanding can be corrected when technologies and institutions shape the conditions of an encounter. Read from left to right. The first four branches trace Gadamer’s account of understanding as an event. The transition on p. 386 leads into chapter 5 and the question of language. The Institute’s own argument begins in the purple Relationship branch, where subject and object acquire their standings in an encounter. The Habermas and Ricoeur branches test that argument against accounts of critique. Yellow identifies the Institute’s open questions and doubts.

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How to respond. Start a topic for a station you want to contest, correct, or extend. Argue from the texts and give printed pages where you can; the map's notes give the Institute's page references. Readings that change the map are credited in the next version's changelog.