The topics of these studies on hermeneutics range from Hegel's critique of Friedrich Schlegel to Gadamer's engagement with traditional hermeneutics. Systematic questions are also at the forefront, even when seemingly purely historical references are examined. For instance, the issue of how interpreters Haym and Dilthey approached early Romanticism revolves around the possibility of a historical reinterpretation, which proves to be the task of the philosophical-historical reconstruction of frameworks of articulation in another context. August Boeckh's formula for the work of philology: the knowledge of the known is a guiding theme in the sense that these studies ultimately aim at a hermeneutical theory of communication about what has been understood, as outlined in the concluding section. The historical reference point for all essays is Dilthey, whose theory of understanding is not.