Abstract
ESPITE THE FACT that the present issue of this journal contains articles dealing with hermeneutics, Peter Szondi's question whether a discipline called literary hermeneutics even exists today is still difficult to answer affirmatively. At first glance these essays may in fact appear so diverse as to have only the vaguest family resemblance to one another-a resemblance that could be as easily captured by the catchword literary theory as by hermeneutics. Thus, the two pieces that are explicitly critical of hermeneutics, Charles Altieri's and Anthony Savile's, use the label hermeneutics for quite different views, and Schleiermacher's 1819 lectures no longer seem especially relevant to the recent philosophical debate summarized here by Giunther Buck. Yet even if several of the articles do not mention the term hermeneu-
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