Throughout his life Heidegger remained a devoted reader of Aristotle, who plays a particularly important role during the early twenties when the existential analytic is developed. This background is one important key to understanding the philosophical implications of Heidegger's analysis of Stimmung. In the end this theme also invites us to distinguish in very broad terms how the relation between passion and reason has been articulated in Greek and Christian thinking respectively. Against the background of such a general account, it is my purpose here to situate Heidegger's analysis of Stimmung in a context in which it can hopefully both be better appreciated and critically assessed.

The article explores how the problem of truth surfaces in the contemporary theory of interpretation and implicitly guides how we view what interpretation is. It has two main sections, the first of which contains a brief historical survey of how the problem of truth has surfaced in hermeneutical theory from Schleiermacher to Hirsch. The second attempts to formulate, in a phenomenological spirit, a systematic understanding of what truth can mean in the context of interpretation.

Denna första volym av Södertörn Philosophical Studies har som sitt huvudtema Hans Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) och den filosofiska hermeneutiken. Här belyses ur flera perspektiv framförallt Gadamers förhållande till antiken och antik filosofi, och hermeneutikens anspråk på att inte bara tolka utan också återövra och aktualisera viktiga temata inom antikens tänkande. I en text diskuteras också den hermeneutiska filosofins grundare, Schleiermacher.

Ett bidrag av Jesper Svenbro frilägger en läsandets teori och etik hos Platon, och i en annan text diskuteras Merleau-Pontys naturfilosofi.